>>>very good planes
>>
>>>F/A-18
>>
>>*cough*
>>
>>I'm sorry, you were saying?
>
>It's actually pretty good. Jack of all trades, making it perfect for
>any sort of "light" carrier (be it traditional sea-going or a
>space-going carrier). In a sense it is much like some of the classic
>planes of World War II, including the F4U Corsair and the F6F - or the
>F-4 Phantom for that matter. It is, for all intents and purposes, a
>fighter-bomber that does both tasks very well, particularly in it's
>E/F variants.

Hehe. Seen the EA-18G "Growler" variant yet? That's going to hit the street quickly here...it will be nice, (personally) we shouldn't have been so quick to unload the Spark Vark (EF-111)