The F-18 is a multirole, twin engine, supersonic carrier capable fighter and attack aircraft. Introduced initially as the Hornet, the F-18 serves in the United States Navy, Marine Corps ...

It’s the thrill of a lifetime. The sound of the jet engine roaring as you take off inside the 2-seater F/A-18 Super Hornet jet. It’s a level takeoff, keeping low and steady off the ground.

With a single turbofan engine that generates 43,000 pounds of thrust, the F-35 surpasses the power of other models like the F/A-18 Super Hornet ... issues with the jet, including the recently ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Boeing in St. Louis produces two fighter jets, the F-15 and the F/A-18 Super Hornet, the primary jet on U.S. Navy aircraft ...

For the second time in just over a week, a U.S. Navy fighter jet ... F/A-18 Super Hornet was first developed by McDonnell Douglas Corporation in 1978 as an all-weather supersonic, twin-engine ...

The U.S. military will go to extraordinary lengths to recover a downed jet—both to salvage it for parts and to ... was catastrophic engine failure. The second aircraft, an F-35A numbered as ...