Jul 10 2009Time Lapse Video Of Super Hornet Jet Build
This is a time lapse video of a F/A-18 Super Hornet jet being built. And let me just say, wow, that thing must have over 100 different pieces. Making it nearly twice as complicated as the hardest LEGO set I've built.
Constructing A Super Hornet: "A time lapse of the construction of a Super Hornet" [liveleak]
Thanks to Spy, who may or may not have secretly recorded this footage with a bowtie cam.
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Reader Comments
1. john - July 10, 2009 4:20 PM
SECOND!
2. Mike Freeman - July 10, 2009 4:20 PM
First!
3. Daisy - July 10, 2009 4:29 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max hires the partially retarded son of a mobster to be in his TV Show. Later hitmen who are trying to kill Max mistake the retard for him, and kill him. This makes the mobster angry, and the killers are dealt with harshly.
4. snarf - July 10, 2009 4:34 PM
Time-lapse! not "stop motion"
5. ffffffffffffffff - July 10, 2009 4:45 PM
tldw
6. C-Basstian - July 10, 2009 4:47 PM
@ Gordon "Fücking" Shumway (and a few other people)
oh i have been around.. lockheed has taken some new measures to make sure that we are not web surfing while at work.. however the proxy i use to look at geekologie wont allow me to comment on the site. so im still here in spirit haha. and to everyone else that sent me well wishes thank you.
7. JJ Daddy-O - July 10, 2009 4:55 PM
Wow, it must have taken all day to build that thing...
8. Ollie Williams - July 10, 2009 5:07 PM
I got bored after 0:39 and decided to comment instead.
9. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 10, 2009 5:08 PM
i am d!cks
10. J - July 10, 2009 5:54 PM
The company I work for makes components for this aircraft, and now i'd really like to show this vid off at work. Too bad They're complete internazis.
11. goop - July 10, 2009 8:39 PM
ow look at how fast they work
12. goop - July 10, 2009 8:39 PM
*wow
not ow
13. bendizle - July 10, 2009 9:00 PM
its a damn shame they havnt figured out how to mass produce stuff like this.....cut down on costs dramatically... :(
14. led display - July 10, 2009 11:32 PM
who may or may not have secretly recorded this footage with a bowtie cam.
15. xat - July 11, 2009 12:23 AM
AHHHH, now i see why the one I made at home didnt work!
16. RK - July 11, 2009 3:10 AM
wow. for such a cool plane, it was an incredibly boring video.
17. Deathguise - July 11, 2009 11:28 AM
Spy huh? i can assume that the plane was sapped after all those engies put it together
18. micko - July 11, 2009 1:40 PM
Cool lego set .. where do I get one ?
19. Jaded Icon - July 11, 2009 11:00 PM
Now I can see why the Austrailians have such a great airforce...........bleh
20. hotels - July 12, 2009 8:29 AM
I want 1 for me.
21. Rhialto - July 13, 2009 8:08 AM
Now we're talking about organization!
22. jazzmanman - July 13, 2009 8:11 AM
How lame!!!
Boeing Sux!!!
We make the F22 & F35... ha!!!
23. His Huge Greatness Himself - July 13, 2009 8:14 AM
The problem with our Death Star project is that there aren't enough people on this planet for employment!
24. JoMama - July 13, 2009 10:20 AM
Great... now some asshat is going to try to build one in his basement and have to dig it out with a backhoe.
25. This Guy - July 13, 2009 8:50 PM
OK...overall not too bad but I work for the company that makes this bird and that was a regular Hornet, (NOT Super Hornet), C/D model (C one seat D is two seat). The Super Hornet is E/F (you guessed it; E one seat and F is two seat). No foreign countries have the Super Hornet yet. All go to the US Navy for a few more years then it's open for foreign sales. In fact, the building shown in assembly is actually vacant now.
OK...geek vent over.
26. drbendy - July 14, 2009 3:32 PM
I bet they still have a washer left over.
27. bbb - July 14, 2009 10:31 PM
That was really amazing to watch. We got to see from its very beginning a machine that will some day "accidentally" bomb children at a wedding the Middle East.
28. Jon - July 18, 2009 11:01 AM
Thisguy:
C models are single seaters, and D models are two seaters, you're right on that part.
But...
See those square intakes? That's no Hornet, that's a Super Hornet.
Plus that aircraft is a little too big to be a regular Hornet.
Sorry bro! You're wrong here and I doub't you work for a company that produces aircraft (or maybe a receptionist? :P ) but its good that you have an interest in aircraft. :)
Not exactly a geek rant, more an ex-plane-buff rant.