McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet BuNo 163439, Blue Angel 1, the Blue Angels’ lead jet from 2015 to 2020 and the first Blue Angels aircraft in the Smithsonian’s collection, displayed at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia: the US Navy’s single-seat twin-engined carrier strike fighter with two General Electric F404 turbofans, leading-edge extensions running forward to the cockpit, a trapezoidal mid wing with wing-tip missile rails, twin canted fins and all-moving stabilators: Blue Angels gloss blue overall with gold fin caps and a slanted gold ‘1’ on each fin, a gold top deck behind the canopy narrowing to gold lines along the nose, gold ‘U.S. NAVY’ on the engine bays, the ‘Blue Angels’ script and team crest under the cockpit and gold wing-tip rails and stabilator tips, as photographed at Udvar-Hazy, shown with its wings spread although it is displayed with them folded (no Hornet is preserved in a UK museum; shape from a three-view drawing of the F/A-18A/C checked against a NASA drawing and photographs). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 318 models · download .glb (1.1 MB) · Plate 292 in The Hangar