The F-18: Just how good is it? (1980)

[+MigBuster]

Just had to laugh really. 

 

 

From July 1980: Brian Stewart reports on the controversy surrounding Canada's newest fighter jet, the McDonnell Douglas F-18A.

 

[TeargasHorse]

How many cheese sandwiches can be made during a -2 g roll?

Can  the 18  hold up with its tendency to dance uncontrollably during bar mitzfah festivities?

With a cockpit made of cheddar, can one pilot land in the cracker mountains safely?

[MAKO69]

A lot of the shortcomings were overcome, when the A+ came along, then subsequently the rest of the variants. The early blocks were called the Jack of all trades master of none. The CF-188 is still trucking along with a fist full of other air arms that have legacy hornets, look at the F/A-18C+ which is being upgraded with the war computers and radar more on the level of the Superbug. It's a great plane still and will be around for another 30+ years. Cool video though. The arguments sound very familiar to what's going on with The JSF-35 Lightning II, over budget & a bad plane being forced on air arms now.

[+MigBuster]

Yes kinda why I find it so funny - the negativity in the report is mostly based on ignorance nothing more - just like most of the reports regarding the F-35.