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miamiair (netAirspace FAA) 27 Jul 16, 17:05Post
Boeing Awarded Contract for Blue Angels Transition to Super Hornet

Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that the Boeing Company has been awarded the contract to begin the transition of the Blue Angels from the F/A-18 Hornet to the F/A-18 Super Hornet. The contract is as follows:

Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is being awarded $12,053,076 for cost-plus-fixed-fee, delivery order 0002 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-16-G-0001) for non-recurring design and development engineering for an engineering change proposal for the "Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels) Super Hornet Conversion."

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Click Click D'oh (Photo Quality Screener & Founding Member) 27 Jul 16, 18:39Post
IMHO, a much better choice than waiting for F-35s. It will be interesting to see if they incorporate some of the Rhinos special traits into the show. It bleeds speed in hard corners more than the legacy hornet, but can point it's nose well down to stupid low airspeeds.
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