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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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Uploaded on October 28, 2018
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