#f-18 super hornet

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F/A-18 Super Hornet

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The Navy F-18s are doing low and slow carrier touch-and-goes and I'm suddenly reminded of why I haven't kicked my Topgun hyperfixation yet 😂

[indynerdgirl]

I can't tell you how many Top Gun Maverick graphics and moodboards I've seen that make me laugh because they include these pictures or ones very similar.

BECAUSE, Y'ALL.

Those are the Thunderbirds.

The AIR FORCE demo team who fly the F-16 Fighting Falcon.

For Top Gun Maverick graphics and moodboards, you want these guys.

The Blue Angels

They're the Navy's demo team who fly the F-18 Super Hornet.

The exact same plane they fly in the movie (fun fact: it was a Blue Angel Super Hornet that did the actual fly over above Admiral Cain we see Darkstar do in the movie).

Now, the two teams do fly together on occasion. But please make note of two differences besides the obvious paint schemes.

1) The F-16 has one tail fin while the F-18 has two and 2) The F-18 is way bigger than the F-16.

Also a reminder that the Navy does NOT fly the F-22 Raptor (that is Air Force only).

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USAF F-22 Demo ship along with the USN Blue Angels Solo's on a photo flight during the Columbus Airshow

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Probably the best goodwill find ever.

She’s a little broken, but for $1.50 I can’t complain.

If you set it on the ground and pull back it shoots forward like one of those toy cars.

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F/A-18C Hornet deploying flares

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[diadotcom]

F/A-18 Super Hornet fly over!!! listen to that roar!!!!

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Naughty Hornet

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White Collar and Top Gun Fusion

Special Agent for the FBI in the white-collar crimes division Bradley Bradshaw once arrested white-collar criminal Jake Seresin, alias the Hangman.

The Hangman is a charming and sophisticated con artist known as such because he cockily leaves a hangman game on each crime scene (leading to his next theft). However, Agent Bradshaw cracks his hangman code which has allowed him to finally capture the elusive criminal.

(Un)fortunately, his criminal talents in counterfeiting are coveted by the white-collar crimes division. The FBI IceBoss Tom Kazansky strikes a deal with him: serving his remaining four-year sentence as an anklet-wearing consultant to the FBI. Seresin accepts the deal as long as he gets Agent Bradshaw as his handler. (What? The guy has brains and is sweet on the eye –his moustache notwithstanding–, and he likes ‘hem smart and pretty.)

Agent Bradshaw has no choice but to obey his bossdad. He’s thus now working with the infuriating, cunning, and not at all appealing criminal alongside his newly formed white-collar team –Agents Natasha Trace and Bob Floyd. The team has a particularly high solved-cases rate, mainly due to the duo très spécial working together.

FBI consultant Jake Seresin has the time of his life: he lives in a beautiful and richly decorated house with Penny Benjamin, the charming landlady; he wears her late husband’s styled suits and hats; he finds his criminal and genius best friend Javy Machado again and often asks him for help in various FBI cases…

About that…He is surprised how much he likes using his devilishly almost-too-good-to-be-true talents (‘ugh’, says Bradley, every single time) for the other side of the law. His colleagues Trace and Floyd are really nice too: he banters with Phoenix like he would his own sister, and fondly annoys Bob like he would a little brother.

He expects even less to fall for Agent Bradshaw. Bradley. The Hawaiian-shirt-wearing and by-the-book special agent appears to be a little grumpy on the outside, especially with him, but Jake is trying to shatter Bradley’s walls, and he will succeed eventually. They have numerous evening talks during which they share personal details, and pretty much bicker about every possible subject.

Jake also meets the IceBoss’ trophy wife and Bradley’s godfather, Pete (‘Call me Maverick’) Mitchell. Maverick is a mechanic and an engineer, and he does some consultant work when the FBI needs his expertise. These two become thick as thieves, as they have similar minds, and Maverick often invites Jake for dinner (Bradley whines ‘Mav, whyyyyyyyyy?!’ meanwhile Ice is questioning his husband’s –matchmaking–motives…‘Trust me IceBaby, I know what I’m doing.’)

It is Mav who convinces Jake to go for it, because his oblivious godson would never act on his feelings, he’s too cautious (‘Ah. The snug-on-his-perch type’…..‘Well, yeah, but he has his reasons.’). However, Mav is sure he likes Jake because Ice has told him Bradley often comes in his office to rant about Hangman (‘Ice, he’s yet again charming such and such, he’s unprofessional!’… Also Ice has the patience of a saint).

Thus Jake begins wooing Bradley à la Hangman: he leaves him complimentary notes disguised as hangman games on his desk, he delivers perfect art forgeries in Bradley’s effigy (paintings, sculptures, drawings,…) at his home –Bradley’s both scandalised and reluctantly charmed– and, on one memorable occasion, Bradley’s gifted a Carrara-marbled, life-sized and very much naked statue of Jake. He stays speechless for an abnormal amount of time and can’t look Jake in the eye (héhé) for some time. He’ll deny it, but Bradley keeps the statue. Of course, he keeps the statue! Finally, Jake’s last and most romantic move is to offer Bradley a piano he's personally restored! It’s the final straw for Bradley: he jumps him so hard his neighbours call the police to report *suspicious* noise.

[After their “strenuous” activities, Jake asks Bradley if he has succeeded in accomplishing his most spectacular heist.

Bradley: And what would that be?

Jake: Have I finally succeeded in stealing your heart?

Bradley: For a seductive bastard, you are ridiculously corny sometimes…but if you must know. Yeah, you did.]

Once they get their act together, Bradley feels comfortable enough to do some wooing of his own: he serenades Jake with skillful renditions of 'Smooth Criminal' on the piano as well as old romantic ballads.

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The Fleur De Lis (sometimes spelled Fleur De Lys) or flower of the lily is a decorative symbol widely used in European symbolism, particularly by the French, as well as by numerous other nations and organizations around the world. The United States Navy (USN) Blue Angels are the oldest military aerobatic team in the United States, formed in 1946. Currently flying the Boeing F/A-18 “Super Hornet,” their 11th airplane since their inception, they perform a maneuver named for the iconic Fleur De Lis symbol. It is one of their signature maneuvers, involving all 6 aircraft, and certainly a crowd favorite. This image captures the team just after breaking in to the maneuver at the 2022 Minden Aviation Roundup in Minden Nevada.

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Commission for a friend of a blue angel fella✈️

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[indynerdgirl]

US Navy Blue Angels 2023/2024 Performance Schedules

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Which is YOUR favorite team?