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- Jul 13, 2020
Why wasn't Northrop F-18L commercially successful? Very few nation operate carriers yet they preferred F/A-18 eventhough the land version were lighter and with more payload?
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Looking here from Canada, I'd think the CAF (now RCAF) would have wanted the carrier op features of robust landing gear and arrestor hook for distant field ops, like this CF-18 landing at FOL Inuvik with the help of its arrestor hook.Why wasn't Northrop F-18L commercially successful? Very few nation operate carriers yet they preferred F/A-18 eventhough the land version were lighter and with more payload?
Yes... the F-35As for both Canada (if they end up buying them) and Norway will have drag chutes (Norway paid for the development, so Canada gets theirs cheaper). Note that F-35A AF-2 (pictured above) is a developmental aircraft, used for testing and development of new equipment.Looking here from Canada, I'd think the CAF (now RCAF) would have wanted the carrier op features of robust landing gear and arrestor hook for distant field ops, like this CF-18 landing at FOL Inuvik with the help of its arrestor hook.
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Which begs the question, will the RCAF variant of the USAF's F-35A have a hook so that FOL ops can continue? Or are we returning to drag chutes?
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What's old is new again?
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Why wasn't Northrop F-18L commercially successful? Very few nation operate carriers yet they preferred F/A-18 eventhough the land version were lighter and with more payload?