Fins, Boeing combine Hornet parts for 'Frankenplane'

'FRANKENPLANE': With an engineering feat that will create the world's only aircraft of its kind, the Finnish Air Force is constructing its newest two-seater F-18D Hornet by combining sections from a C-model and an earlier-generation B-model Hornet, the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command says. The U.S...

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