Boeing says Super Hornet can make ski jump takeoff with ‘significant’ payload

Dan Gillian, Boeing’s program manager for the F/A-18 and EA-18G, told Economic Times that his company had done simulations of the Super Hornet taking off from a ski jump and the aircraft can be launched with a ‘significant’ payload.

An F-A-18E Super Hornet flies over USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. (33112071220)
By Official U.S. Navy Page from United States of AmericaMass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Anderson W. Branch/U.S. Navy [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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