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Title: Job Perk
Post by: midnight Target on January 19, 2004, 08:55:25 PM

I get to tour the Grumman F-18 Super Hornet assembly facility tomorrow. Wooot!

Title: Job Perk
Post by: SunTracker on January 19, 2004, 09:06:12 PM

Say hi to the plane that killed the F-14 for me ;)

Title: Job Perk
Post by: Sandman on January 20, 2004, 12:33:45 AM

Grumman?

Title: Job Perk
Post by: Chairboy on January 20, 2004, 12:55:39 AM

Grumman produces the center and aft fuselage.

Title: Job Perk
Post by: Chairboy on January 20, 2004, 12:56:38 AM

Excuse me, I meant to say:

Grumman produces the center and aft fuselage of that stupid plane.  F-14 forevuh baby!




ed: bolded 'stupid plane' because...  i wanted to.

Title: Job Perk
Post by: Sandman on January 20, 2004, 08:52:42 AM

Wow... didn't know that.. thanx.

Title: Job Perk
Post by: FUNKED1 on January 20, 2004, 11:10:22 AM

WTG MT.  But I was hoping for post-coital nude photos of your new co-worker.

Title: Job Perk
Post by: mason22 on January 20, 2004, 01:13:26 PM

let me rephrase what FUNKED meant to say....

"WTG MT. But I was hoping for post-coital nude photos of your new female co-worker."

Title: Job Perk
Post by: Ping on January 20, 2004, 01:42:56 PM

actually mason, you need to carefully examine his post.

He clearly states below the main line, "Tht man is so cute and fund!"
 That seems to indicate something much different than your assumption.

Title: Job Perk
Post by: gofaster on January 20, 2004, 01:58:10 PM

Make sure you remove all of your tools from under the panels.

Title: Job Perk
Post by: Chairboy on January 20, 2004, 02:40:27 PM

North American got busted for leaving tools in the cabin of the CM, Grumman had a finger wagged at them for a couple of washers in the LM, but they ended up saying it 'twasnt a thang'.

North American, on the otherhand....  BAM!  They got raked over the coals.

Title: Job Perk
Post by: 2stony on January 20, 2004, 03:29:19 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the F-18 Super Hornet built by Boeing?

:)

Title: Job Perk
Post by: Ripsnort on January 20, 2004, 05:07:54 PM

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Originally posted by 2stony
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the F-18 Super Hornet built by Boeing?

:)

Yes. :)

Hey MT, take LOTS OF PICTURES (nudge nudge, wink wink)

Title: Job Perk
Post by: Otto on January 20, 2004, 05:24:31 PM

I have a contract to produce the left side wheel nuts.  I do it in my basement....

Title: Job Perk
Post by: Curval on January 20, 2004, 06:08:35 PM

Just what kind of RVs do you make/sell?  Do they have cool "James Bond" features in the various options packages or something?  Jet packs..rocket propelled acceleration?

;)

Title: Job Perk
Post by: eskimo2 on January 20, 2004, 06:42:06 PM

Does the HR girl know about this other interest of yours?

eskimo

Title: Job Perk
Post by: midnight Target on January 20, 2004, 09:30:25 PM

The F-18E-F is a Boeing operation, but Northrop Grumman makes the fuselage in El Segundo California. These are sent to St. Louis to be completed by Boeing.

Very cool operation, also saw the initial production parts of the F-35. Amazing stuff. Climate controlled tooling, parts and atmosphere to allow composits to mate perfectly later on in the  assembly building in Palmdale.

They are tooling up to build the F-35 at 1 per day.

I was unaware that the F18-E/F was so different from the C/D. Bigger, composite instead of metal, more manueverable....etc.

Title: Job Perk
Post by: gofaster on January 21, 2004, 09:14:00 AM

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Originally posted by Chairboy
North American got busted for leaving tools in the cabin of the CM, Grumman had a finger wagged at them for a couple of washers in the LM, but they ended up saying it 'twasnt a thang'.

North American, on the otherhand....  BAM!  They got raked over the coals.

Happens in commercial airliners, too. That's why I mentioned it.

Title: Job Perk
Post by: gofaster on January 21, 2004, 09:16:19 AM

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Originally posted by midnight Target
They are tooling up to build the F-35 at 1 per day.

I was unaware that the F18-E/F was so different from the C/D. Bigger, composite instead of metal, more manueverable....etc.

F-35, isn't that the Joint Strike Fighter?  I assume that the one you saw is a X model for pre-production testing?

The F-18E is called the "SuperHornet" because its super-sized in just about everything.