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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Didn't realize the hornets had gotten that big.
I think it's just that widebody stance they have that gives them such a lumbering look. That's a loooooot of fuselage.
Anybody between probably 35 and 55 is gonna have a soft spot for the big fighter; it's just the era we grew up in. At least the A-10 is still fighting the good fight and the F-15 is gonna have a 50+ year service life when all is said and done. In this era of aircraft development and for a high performance fighter, that's unthinkable.
But the F-14 will almost certainly always be my favorite.
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Roger.
Yeah Super Hornets are called Rhinos on the boat. Ironically same nickname F4 Phantoms had as well due to size. We called Tomcats, “Turkeys” due to thier variable geometry wings. Like a cobbler strutting and spreading.