Official Freewing F/A-18C Hornet 90mm EDF Thread

[Evan D]

I flew my 7 year old C model yesterday, still in mint condition and flying awesome.

[jetpltrich]

I attended a talk by Chuck Yeager years ago. He was discussing the instability designed into modern fighters to make them extremely agile.

He said (about the ship he was discussing…some F-xx fighter and I think it was the F-18);

Paraphrasing:
- There are redundant flight control computers. If they fail, you punch out. It is impossible to manually control the fighter. If you try to manually fly it, you will have success for only a VERY few seconds. -

—GG

In my initial class at Southwest Airlines the senior member of the class was a former Navy pilot who flew F-18's. He had a complete ADFCS failure of after launch off a carrier in an F-18A and managed to fight the plane to a shore station, I think NAS Norfolk. If I can find the story I will share.

Rich