Saturday, November 12, 2016

F-18 Hornet Rollout Photos

Stitched Page 1 Photos taken by yours truely of the F-18A Hornet roll out on September 13, 1978 . The “Hornet Launch” was in front of Bldg 002 on the St. Louis factory ramp, under the McDonnell Douglas red sign.

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4 comments:

Burkhard Domke said...

Hi Ron,

Thank you for the Hornet #1 roll-out photos, awesome! I just reached the final painting stage with my 1/72 scale Hasegawa kit. The photos come just in time.

Cheers,
Burkhard

Unknown said...

Thank you very much mister Downey, this is the right stuff for a proper scale model depiction of the very first of the many, if not to much for ask, do you stock photos of cockpit and wheel bays?, thanks again and kind regards.

Aviation Archives said...

Very few of them.

Unknown said...

Thank you mr. Downey, could you please even for that few?, are these already up?, where could i reach these?

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