This is a picture of my Italeri F/A-18F, serial F-1, the first F model produced by Boeing, then McDonnell Douglas. This post is primarily to see if I have finally mastered the art of posting pictures. Thanks to WILD WEASEL for his detailed instructions on this procedure.
I built the plane for my daughter who is an Aeronautical Engineer with Boeing, working on the Super Hornet program. She has since been reassigned to the E/A-18G Growler program. [alien]
Yardbird,
Glad to be of help. Obviously, everything worked well, as I can see a beautiful F/A-18F on my screen right now. Great Job!! Good luck to your daughter as well. Does she get any flight time in those things?
She says getting a flight in one of the Super Hornets is a “career goal.” Possible, but fairly unlikely. She did get a trip last summer to San Diego and spent a week out on the USS Abraham Lincoln, CVA-72 observing flight ops and all the other activities aboard a carrier. She boarded while the ship was at the dock, but got a ride back in the C-2 COD. One “cat shot” in the log book, no traps.
I was absolutely GREEN with envy. [:p]
Yardbird,
Go to stuka’s post once again. There is some more info there that I just posted on how to make your posted image much larger for viewing. Sorry I didn’t mention it in my instructions before. Good Luck!!
Man, your daughter sounds as though she has a job made in heaven!! Is Boeing still hiring??? [:D][:D][:D]
Yes, she is pretty much in heaven now, job wise. She definately carved her own path getting there though. She graduated from high school in 1986 as validictorian of her 400+ student class, was accepted to MIT and graduated there in 1990 with a BS in Astronautical Engineering. She went to Los Angeles and worked in Pasadena for JPL on interplanetary space probes, including Galileo, Cassini and Pathfinder (the first rover to go to Mars and take pictures while bouncing off rocks). While there, she earned a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from Cal Tech.
She then went to Virginia for 5 years and worked for Orbital Sciences Corp on earth orbiting satellites and earned a Masters in Computer Design Technology. She started working for Boeing in 2001. A fairly ambitious young lady! [alien]
P.S. Her pet peeve is being told she can’t do something because she is a woman.
Wow, sounds like she knows what she wants. What does she do on the Growler program?
Glad to see the larger picture of the Hornet. It looks great!!!
Very nice build of the Hornet. Sounds like your daughter is quite the young lady, you should be very proud.
Regards, Rick
Nice looking Hornet there, yardbird![tup] Glad you figured out how to post pics and glad you shared it with us. Keep it up!
Is she single?[:P]
WildWeasel: Her official title is, “Avionics Integration Manager.” aka, she makes sure all the various black boxes talk to each other with out creating any logjams, with a few other miscellaneous things thrown in.
Trans Am: She just got married this past September to a Civil Engineer type who specializes in bridges. Her description of the two of them is, “I build airplanes and he builds targets!” [alien]
That’s what I used to do in the USMC - work on the avionics in the Harriers. I like the “target” analogy as well. Sounds like you did a great job raising your daughter.[^] I almost feel sorry for her new hubby…[:D][:D][:D]
Yardbird, is that you in the picture???
lovely looking F-18F.You must be a really proud father.
Very well done indeed.
I may get into deep kimche for this post, but since my daughter and her aerospace activities seem to have become the main subject of this thread, I thought that I would add a photo of her. It is about 2 years old. Good looking and intelligent both. Obviously takes after her mother! [alien]
Yardbird78:
Nice family and good looking Super Bug! One note…USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN is CVN-72.
WildWeasel:
Harrier Avionics…640 shop? MALS-13 or 14?
Semper Fi!
Carl
Dragonfire,
I was initially at Cherry Point with H&MS-32 back in 1985, then a few years later the USMC changed all H&MS units to MALS, so I was then with MALS-32 until I went recruiting in 1992, after I got back from the first Gulf War. After I got back from recruiting in 1994, MALS-32 (as well as MAG-32 being absorbed by MAG-14) was absorbed by MALS-14, so I was with MALS-14 until I got out in 1995. And yep, I was in 600 Division, work center 640 while with MALS-32, and 64C with MALS-14. Do I know you by chance?? Semper Fi, Devil Dog!!
Yardbird,
Great-looking daughter you have there!! I can see why she’s unavailable. Hopefully, she doesn’t end up “fat and bald” later on, as you have described yourself. [:D][:D]
Wild Weasel:
I worked Aviation Supply at MALS-13 from 1999-2002. Did a pump with 15th MEU(SOC) into Afghaniland in 2001. Transfered to the TYCOM (CNAP, San Diego) in 2002, deployed for OIF I in 2003, and just got out three months ago (still in the IRR). So I guess the means I showed up after you did. Semper Fi Devil Dog!!!
Carl
Nice work!!
Nice work, yardbird! And your daughter is a “model” for daughters like mine to follow, who was 9 Dec 2nd 