Planeopnik - "Hornet 1"

If you thought moving a project car was hard, try moving a non-functioning airframe through town.

I spent my Saturday morning helping the local restoration group move the first production F/A-18A airframe - aka “Hornet 1" - to its new home after a six month volunteer-led effort nearly forty years after its first flight and after the Navy tried to shoot and burn it to the ground. It is now parked across the lot from the lone surviving Grumman F-11F-1F Super Tiger prototype