Originally Posted by
Jackonicko
GK121,
I don’t know why you are or are not surprised. As a Johnny come lately septic with 49 posts you are proving yourself to be every bit as clueless as your postcount would suggest.
The F/A-18 was a productionised derivative of the YF-17, the latter plainly a “non-STOVL land-based design that was developed into a successful carrier-based variant.
Not like jacko to be so derogatory, but since he trotted himself out, plainly he's not the accurate historian all the time either:
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevo...r_us/f018.html
http://www.history.navy.mil/planes/fa18.htm
Seems the F/A-18 was just a wee bit different than its YF-17 ancestor. Several years and many billions of $ later and it became a fine carrier aircraft. Like, perhaps, a navalized Typhoon. But do be careful with chucking stones around........