Navy Super Hornet goes Home in C5

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Well, it might have been a sad day for
Navy fighter jocks and a proud day for
Air Force cargo haulers. A Navy F/
A-18E/F Super Hornet became the first
U.S. fighter jet ever to be flown home
from war inside a cargo plane on Aug. 18. As you can see above, the poor Super
Hornet was stripped down and loaded
into an Air Force C-5 Galaxy and flown
from Kandahar Afghanistan to NAS
North Island in San Diego, Calif., nearly
six months after a rough landing left the fighter unable to fly. See, normally
fighter jocks get to fly their planes to
and from combat zones. Heck, even
when something goes wrong with a
plane the military will usually try to
ferry the jet home with an experienced fighter pilot at the
controls. This Super Hornet was too
badly damaged for that to happen.