(10-05-2025, 09:20 PM)rickymouse Wrote: I could have sworn that the F/A-18 was already capable of doing that before. I must have misread an article when trying to learn about jets when I was on ATS trying to find a bearing on responding to some thread there. Maybe I should turn the computer off and go to bed before midnight. Our internet is so slow tonight I couldn't even get the x links to open. It hasn't even rained and it is slow. Maybe a deer kicked that broken AT&T connection pole sticking out of the ground that has the old fiberglass parts leaning against it yet from when the county weed wacker knocked it apart a while back and messed up the connections.
nah its just the introduction of the video of an F-18 breaking the sound barrier
not a declaration that this was the first time an F-18 broke the sound barrier...
![[Image: 960px-FA-18_Hornet_breaking_sound_barrie...tered.jpeg]](https://denyignorance.com/uploader/images/960px-FA-18_Hornet_breaking_sound_barrier_(7_July_1999)_-_filtered.jpeg)
Quote: Off the coast of Pusan, South Korea: An F/A-18 Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron One Five One (VFA-151) breaks the sound barrier in the skies over the Pacific Ocean. VFA-151 is deployed aboard USS Constellation (CVN 64). This is an edited version (reduced grain).
Date7 July 1999
Routinely broke the sound barrier back in the 90s
![[Image: F-A-18_Hornet_3.0_cover.jpg]](https://denyignorance.com/uploader/images/F-A-18_Hornet_3.0_cover.jpg)
![[Image: PEART-2744335652.gif]](https://denyignorance.com/uploader/images/PEART-2744335652.gif)
