The Great Growler Gallery

[raptor10]

I thought this was the shocker

It is

 

[skim]

It is

That patch is cool.

 

[eddie]

Wait so is it gonna be Shocker, like the Viper is a Fighting Falcon?

 

[kmac]

Wait so is it gonna be Shocker, like the Viper is a Fighting Falcon?

The manufacturer names the plane, but that doesn't mean it's adopted by the fleet. Therefore you'll see aircraft with two names (or if you're the F-22 you'll go through Lightning II, Superstar, Rapier, and then finally Raptor).

What I find interesting is how different companies wanted to keep a common theme to a series of aircraft.
Lockheed: "star," such as Shooting Star, TriStar, Starfighter, StarLifter, JetStar, etc.
Grumman: "cats" such as Wildcat, Hellcat, Tigercat, Bearcat, Panther, Cougar, Jaguar, Tiger, Tomcat

 

[phrogpilot73]

The manufacturer names the plane, but that doesn't mean it's adopted by the fleet. Therefore you'll see aircraft with two names (or if you're the F-22 you'll go through Lightning II, Superstar, Rapier, and then finally Raptor).

What I find interesting is how different companies wanted to keep a common theme to a series of aircraft.
Lockheed: "star," such as Shooting Star, TriStar, Starfighter, StarLifter, JetStar, etc.
Grumman: "cats" such as Wildcat, Hellcat, Tigercat, Bearcat, Panther, Cougar, Jaguar, Tiger, Tomcat

Helicopters stick with "Sea" mostly... Sea Stallion, Sea Sprite, Sea Knight, Sea Hawk...

 

[HuggyU2]

I thought this was good:

 

[WVUBetaHornet]

Need a user name and password..

 

[RHPF]

I just noticed, there are no hard points. So... the 18G is unarmed??? I thought it would carry at least a few A/A pieces..

 

[HH-60H]

I just noticed, there are no hard points. So... the 18G is unarmed??? I thought it would carry at least a few A/A pieces..

You mean like the Prowler?

That is why HVAAP was invented.

 

[nittany03]

The G will carry AMRAAM for self-defense. Also it wouldn't be much use jamming without any pods, now would it? :icon_tong Looks like a first flight, maybe an initial acceptance functional check flight.

You can find a lot of open source Boeing stuff about potential loadouts, but imagine the ability to carry the same amount of pods as a Prowler + 2 HARM and 2 AMRAAM. And a HUD. And an air-to-air radar.

 

[HuggyU2]

I'll admit that "Lightening II" for the F-35 lacks any originality. But what was the Admiral smoking when he came up with "Growler"?
Put down the crack pipe!

 

[MasterBates]

Apparently naming aircraft is preceded by a mandatory bong hit...

Who knew?

 

[phrogdriver]

...and you know they've heard about what "growler" means by now, and they still haven't changed it! If they wanted a double entendre, they should have gone with the "Shocker!"

 

[robav8r]

Apparently naming aircraft is preceded by a mandatory bong hit...

Who knew?

. . . . . that, and the obligatory "screening" of the new name by the wife/spouse/girlfriend !!!

 

[FastMover]

Here's one with the pods on it. Doesn't look like it has the wingtip pieces though.