Ch.4 Today F-18 Battle Stations 5.30pm (UK)

F/A-18...

Bugger, missed it. Is it repeated on any of the Digi channels?

Spence

As Manuel once famously said - 'Eventually'. They get show some time in the futurte on Discovery Wings or The History Channel. At least the last ones were. David

F-18 in Finland & Switzerland...

...and CF-188 in some potions of Canada.

But if you look on the ID plate on the left aft cockpit sill, you'll see F/A-18 on the manufacturers ID plate...no matter which country you're operating them in.

Don't hold your breath folks, it was littered with errors, chief of were claims that the first jet deck landing was done by a Venom, despite showing footage of a Vampire, and commentary about the MiG 25 was illustrated with shots of a MiG 29! Oh yeah, and the F/A-18 was the first multi-role combat aircraft ever - what was the Mosquito then? They seemed to show some footage about half a dozen times in the show, suggesting they were trying to pad the material out to fill an hour.

No more I'm afraid Digiguide say Simpsons not Battle Stations!

I'm sure I have seen very similar programmes on C5 and UK History

Hi Rufus,

Thanks for correcting the correcy designation F/A-18, I just went with what it said in the paper.

In fact I'm more surprised no one picked me up on saying the Trumpeter kit rather than the Academy it should have been. I could say I was setting this as a test but in truth probably thinking too much of the F-105!

Cheers, Stephen

This sounds like typical history channel, badly edited by people with only a sketchy knowledge of the subject

Mosquito?? How about the 1917 Airco deHavilland 4??

Again, typical history channel practice.

Bill Shuey