odrin Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 (edited) it looks uglier than the a-10. why is it do you think? imo it's because of the slanted vertical stabilizers,the skinniness of the fuselage, it looks like an f-16 with the tail split into two. here's my edit that improved the f-18's looks: imo it still looks like the diseased step brother of the su-27, but it looks better Edited October 17, 2021 by odrin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel Jaw Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Meh...yours is far worse...I think the Bug looks very cool. Never liked the look of the Viper with the low slung air scoop, looks stupid. The Hawg? Fugly, slow, no energy, no radar. 1 "You see, IronHand is my thing" My specs: W10 Pro, I5/11600K o/c to 4800 @1.32v, 64 GB 3200 XML RAM, ASUS RTX3060ti/8GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odrin Posted October 17, 2021 Author Share Posted October 17, 2021 it looks like an insect which is ewww Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudel_chw Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Is this a shallow thread or what? For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600X - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia GTX1070ti - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar - Oculus Rift CV1 Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiG21bisFishbedL Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Everybody gangsta until that F/A-18 with goiters rolls up. Reformers hate him! This one weird trick found by a bush pilot will make gunfighter obsessed old farts angry at your multi-role carrier deck line up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick50 Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 What's going on with the wavy leading edge!? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikeck Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Beauty is in the eye of the person receiving the ordinance 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 The DCS F/A-18 is a huge chunk of awesomeness and I challenge anyone that says otherwise to a duel. 1 Rex's Rig Intel i9-14900K | Nvidia RTX 4090 | 64GB DDR5 | 3x4TB 990 Pro M2 SSDs | HP Reverb 2 | 49" Samsung 5120x1440 @ 120Mhz TM Warthog Stick + Throttle | TM Pendulum Pedals | MS Sidewinder 2 FFB | Track IR | Cougar MFD x 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRAITH Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 (edited) Depends which model, year or block so on because I like it..... Edited June 28, 2022 by WRAITH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oceandar Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 The DCS F/A-18 is a huge chunk of awesomeness and I challenge anyone that says otherwise to a duel.Couldnt agree more. Hornet is one of sexiest planes ever exist. The OP should see again the X-32 lol. 4 Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. - Lao Tze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buschwick Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 14 hours ago, Mower said: Never liked the look of the Viper with the low slung air scoop, looks stupid. 1 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bummer Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 3 hours ago, Oceandar said: Couldnt agree more. Hornet is one of sexiest planes ever exist. The OP should see again the X-32 lol. Especially the D versions, O mama. F/A-18C HORNET cockpit MOD https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/193843-fa-18c-hornet-pit/ F-5E TIGER II cockpit MOD https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/217149-f-5e-tiger-ii-pit/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilo Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 That windshield reminds me of a Sukhoi T-4. Which is not ideal. Все буде добре Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crptalk Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 lmao op really took smudge tool to a f18 and made it fatter then called it better looking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiG21bisFishbedL Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 17 hours ago, Crptalk said: lmao op really took smudge tool to a f18 and made it fatter then called it better looking Some people are into that. They're usually called 'furries.' 1 Reformers hate him! This one weird trick found by a bush pilot will make gunfighter obsessed old farts angry at your multi-role carrier deck line up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairey Gannet Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 Well, F-18 is basically beefed up F-5... but F-5 is prettier. I really love how YF-17 looked like, though. Classy, classy thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_dalan Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 Blasphemy! Had someone told me the Vipers were ugly, especially with those conformal thingies for extra fuel bolted on them, i'd give them a cookie! Or beer and pretzels! Whatever they preferred...... But Bugs? Man, i find Bugs to the vie for the 2nd place with Flankers for the most pretty 4th gen fighter ever built! Modules: FC3, Mirage 2000C, Harrier AV-8B NA, F-5, AJS-37 Viggen, F-14B, F-14A, Combined Arms, F/A-18C, F-16C, MiG-19P, F-86, MiG-15, FW-190A, Spitfire Mk IX, UH-1 Huey, Su-25, P-51PD, Caucasus map, Nevada map, Persian Gulf map, Marianas map, Syria Map, Super Carrier, Sinai map, Mosquito, P-51, AH-64 Apache Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDieing Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 *laughs in Tomcat* ''Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.'' Erich Fromm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnvyC Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 (edited) On a serious note, the Hornet has big X-wing energy. Not "traditionally" beautiful but there is beauty in the rugged industrial look of the thing that makes me weak at the knees. Edited October 19, 2021 by EnvyC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmach Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 You're ugly too, and we still love you... " MrMACH...Flies a cargo plane full of rubber dogshit out of Hong kong..." :D [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobs Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 I completely disagree with OP and the legacy hornet is pure perfection. Nonetheless, I don't like the super hornet because of the canted pylons... that design feature looks ugly and adds a lot of drag. I can't understand why they couldn't come with a better solution. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.J.S Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 9 hours ago, jacobs said: I completely disagree with OP and the legacy hornet is pure perfection. Nonetheless, I don't like the super hornet because of the canted pylons... that design feature looks ugly and adds a lot of drag. I can't understand why they couldn't come with a better solution. I vaguely remember having a discussion with a Boeing rep at Farnborough years ago about this seemingly weird design choice, if my memory isn’t pulling a fast one on me (age!)- it’s something to do with weapon separation tests in the early ‘90’s. The redesigned fuselage causes slightly strange adverse airflow effects at certain speeds and loadings that can cause a released gravity weapon to be pulled IN toward the fuselage barrel. The outermost pylons are kinked out 3 degrees, the next inner two kinked out by 4. It’s a cheaper alternative to a large redesign on what was (then) something already over budget. Alien desktop PC, Intel i7-8700 CPU@3.20GHz 6 Core, Nvidia GTX 1070, 16GB RAM. TM Warthog stick and Throttles. Saitek ProFlight pedals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRAITH Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 (edited) Gettin better with age! Edited November 2, 2021 by WRAITH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustangSally Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Is this just click bait??? ....and why is the OP's pic distorted? Ryzen 9 7950X3D - MSI MAG X670E TomaHawk MB, ASUS ROG Ryujin III 360 AIO 64gig Corsair DDR5@6000, Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 AORUS Winwing Super Taurus, Orion2, TO / Combat panels, Collective with Topgun MIP Winwing Skywalker pedals, NLR Boeing Mil Edition Simpit, Trackir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.J.S Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 2 hours ago, MustangSally said: Is this just click bait??? ....and why is the OP's pic distorted? It’s his “improvement” of the -18, says “it looks better” !?!!?. I just can’t . . . . 1 Alien desktop PC, Intel i7-8700 CPU@3.20GHz 6 Core, Nvidia GTX 1070, 16GB RAM. TM Warthog stick and Throttles. Saitek ProFlight pedals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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