Sunny side up
US Navy Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet BuAerNo.166840/AB412 from VFA-81 'Sunliners' recovers to RAF Lakenheath during their recent deployment there from aboard the visiting Aircraft Carrier - the Nuclear powered USS Harry S Truman
First flown in 1978, noticeable in this view are those extended chines and larger wing of this latest derivative of Northrop's YF-17 design that McDonnell-Douglas developed into the original F/A-18 shipboard Attack Fighter
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Sunny side up
US Navy Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet BuAerNo.166840/AB412 from VFA-81 'Sunliners' recovers to RAF Lakenheath during their recent deployment there from aboard the visiting Aircraft Carrier - the Nuclear powered USS Harry S Truman
First flown in 1978, noticeable in this view are those extended chines and larger wing of this latest derivative of Northrop's YF-17 design that McDonnell-Douglas developed into the original F/A-18 shipboard Attack Fighter
IMG_6997