What plane is on the front page of cnn.com ?

[Mister T]

Need to know ASAP.

 

[hdeck]

cnn.com

just linking myself...


*edit* is that the new f-18 super hornett??

 

[hdeck]

*sigh* 2000 posts and now i do a double post...

 

Too lazy to link ?

 

[XCLAN]

f-16?

 

[PricklyPete]

Edit: F14...a little too quick

 

[Electric Amish]

Probably a Tomcat(?)

amish

 

[Mister T]

doesnt it look like the plane next to it has a bent wing like its from a a carrier....

my guess was F18 superhornet

 

[mk]

F-14, (E)A-6 on the background.

 

[Mister T]

Originally posted by: Mk4
F-14, (E)A-6 on the background.

you sure?

 

[XCLAN]

lol each person named a different plane....shows how good we are at this

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: PricklyPete
F15

Not on an aircraft carrier bubba.

It's an F-14 Tomcat.

ZV

 

[brtspears2]

Could be F-18, F-18 superhornet, F-14, or one of em radar jamming jets. Those are the bulk of carrier based jets,

 

[XCLAN]

its not an f-16...due to lack of the lower intake below cockpit.
looks like a f-14 to me

 

[Electric Amish]

F-14 Tomcat

amish

 

[Queasy]

Yep, F-14. Intake vents gives it away.

 

[notfred]

It's an F-14. Yes I'm sure, and you people who are jsut htrowing out random numbers and hoping an F-XX actually exists shouldn't act like you know what you're talknig about.

 

[radioouman]

Boeing 747.

 

[datalink7]

F-22?

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: notfred
It's an F-14. Yes I'm sure, and you people who are jsut htrowing out random numbers and hoping an F-XX actually exists shouldn't act like you know what you're talknig about.

calm down. at first glance it didn't look like a tomcat to me...

 

[PricklyPete]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: PricklyPete
F15

Not on an aircraft carrier bubba.

It's an F-14 Tomcat.

ZV

Yeah...my bad...I didn't look carefully enough

 

[wnied]

F-14 and the one next to it with the folded wings is an A-6 Intruder(wild weasel electronics jammer)

~wnied~

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

SR-75

 

[Bulk Beef]

Originally posted by: Mk4
F-14, (E)A-6 on the background.

Yup on both counts. Intake on F-14, tail bulge on EA-6 give them both away.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: hdeck

Originally posted by: notfred
It's an F-14. Yes I'm sure, and you people who are jsut htrowing out random numbers and hoping an F-XX actually exists shouldn't act like you know what you're talknig about.

calm down. at first glance it didn't look like a tomcat to me...

Why not? The only other plane we have in service with similar intakes is the F-15, and it doesn't fly off carriers. The F-18 intakes are underneathe the front of the wing, and the wing flows smoothly into the fusealage, there is no abrupt angle like on the F-14 and F-15.