Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler: A Develmental and erational History: A Developmental and Operational History (Schiffer Military History)

A beautifully produced masterpiece. I am so happy with his book that I only have two criticisms. First, in writing how effective the F/A-18A/Cs were in DESERT STORM, the author fails to mention the shoot down of LCDR Speicher and his F/A-18 by an Iraqi MiG-25.I consider this a major goof. Second, he glosses over had badly the Northrop and McDonnell designers got it with the "legacy" F/A-18A/C but under estimating the drag and thus loss of range and endurance. In effective, the "new" F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is not the new plane the designers and this writer would have you believe in the sense that one look tells you it's really just a development of the F/A-18 trying to "get it right" this time. Unfortunately, the splayed out external stores pylons ruin the chance for the designers to say, "Hey, we finally got it right!" But all in all, the Super Hornet seems to be a superb fighter (though no F-22), and this book is gorgeous, and worth the F-18 price.

Well worth the money!! I added this to my naval aviation library. Being a retired Aviation Electrician Mate, I was fortunate to be around for the cream of crop for naval aircraft, F-14, A6, A7, EA-6B and F-18 A-F. One typo I noticed is on pg. 202 middle picture, it's called the waist not waste catapults.

This is the highest quality airplane book I have ever seen!Paper quality, printing quality, photographs, detailed descriptions.An outstanding reference book that is well worth the price.Greatly enjoying the details of how the F/A-18 family beat out the Grumman A-6 family, the F-14 family, and the A-12 project that never flew.It will take a long time to finish reading it.Outstanding job!Consider that once upon a time, the Air Force had a design competition to make the fighter mafia happy. What came out of it was the F-16 and the F-17, and the F-17 became the F-18. Amazing sequence of events.The Air Force screwed up when it canceled the EF-111A and sent them to the boneyard. Not having a jammer that could keep up with the Air Force attack fleet, we ended up losing an F-117 and the wreckage of our stealth fighter ended up with the Chinese. For a long time, the Air Force could not make a decision on what to do. [You've heard it: "Gee, I don't know...."] Years of procrastination. [Well, maybe we could add jammer canoes to a B-52. ] [Well, maybe we could convert an F-35 stealth fighter to a jammer plane!] Finally, the Navy came up with the idea of adding the A-6 jammer pods to an F-18; and it worked!]

Great book, thoroughly enjoying it so far. Its much larger than I had Anticipated (and very well worth the price!) and filled with countless information from various squadrons. Definitely pick it up if you have even the slightest interest in any of the hornet/growler models!

Worth the wait and price. You can't get much more information unless you bought an EF-18! Wish I could get in the cockpit!!!