F-18 Superhornet for neiwil by bmac62

Photography • Aviation • posted on Nov 23, 2008

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I have left this F-18 in a large format for anyone wanting to zoom-in and look at the details for modeling purposes. neiwil and several others have said that ground shots like this are useful for getting proportions right... particularly of the pilots. Have fun with this one Neil. Thanks to all for your comments. Love hearing from you. Bill P.S. Not a lot of contrast between the color of the sky and the aircraft...but that's the way the Navy likes it :-)

Comments (19)

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drace68

4:04AM | Sun, 23 November 2008

The green fringe of distant trees should help establish the essential shapes/proportions, Bill. Nice pic.

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babuci

4:44AM | Sun, 23 November 2008

Worth a zoom, this is a great capture of this "bird".

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tallpindo

5:10AM | Sun, 23 November 2008

I knew this airplane as the Northrup P-530 "Cobra" when an Indonesian exchange pilot brought some performance charts to Douglas in 1968. Then it was only a HIPAAS twin engine selection when McDonnell decided to drop work on the single engine light weight fighter. Once the F-18 was won with a complete redesign of the YF-17 prototype that lost the USAF LWF competition Douglas hoped to manufacture the wing but it also went to St. Louis. I worked on a model of a twin for the NAVY basic training mission but it was decided to use a British HAWK on license.

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ragouc

5:20AM | Sun, 23 November 2008

Good shot. Well done.

skipper62

6:35AM | Sun, 23 November 2008

Great shot Bill, you even got the exhaust of the bird. Good show. Skipper62

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kenwas

6:54AM | Sun, 23 November 2008

Excellent shot. Thanks!

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THROBBE

7:04AM | Sun, 23 November 2008

Great work!!!

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debbielove

7:35AM | Sun, 23 November 2008

Nice work mate! Lovely big picture... Still not running properly yet. Soon be back! Take care, Rob.

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tennesseecowgirl

7:56AM | Sun, 23 November 2008

Very nice!!

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saretta

9:22AM | Sun, 23 November 2008

Amazing shot,splendid!!:-)

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kansas

12:16PM | Sun, 23 November 2008

Sleek and beautiful plane. Great shot.

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Osper

2:07PM | Sun, 23 November 2008

Nicely done.

Tamarrion

2:11PM | Sun, 23 November 2008

Good shot, cool plane... Although I still tend to think of the Super Hornets as "Tomcat wannabe's" :)

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goodoleboy

5:38PM | Sun, 23 November 2008

Stellar capture of the Y-tailed jet as it taxis along the runway. I hadn't noticed before that the nosewheel was set so far back on the fuselage.

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RobyHermida

8:12PM | Sun, 23 November 2008

Beautiful image, well done !!!

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fredster66

2:52PM | Mon, 24 November 2008

So crisp and detailed. Fine work.

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Richardphotos

8:43PM | Tue, 25 November 2008

I bet the light blue color is hard to spot at high elevations, but radar sees all.outstanding capture

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neiwil

7:31AM | Fri, 28 November 2008

Thanks Bill...another very useful shot.I don't do too many 'fast movers' but I think I've got one of these in the hard drive somewhere.From the cockpit forward this puts me in mind of an F-15??.May be just the angle but it looks 'squashed' as if it should be longer in the body but it's been 'backended'.Still an outstanding bird and an excellent capture.Thanks again mate.

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