[Scan-DC] Fighters over Gaithersburg

Wed, 19 Feb 2003 01:17:32 -0500

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:47:28 -0500 (EST) Justin D Osborn
<[email protected]> writes:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Doug K. wrote:
> 
> > Aha, you must be in G'burg also!  I was gonna post this, heard 
> them when I
> > was on the way to work at MC Rockville just after 2:30.  Saw one  
> but not
> > sure what model it was - F14, 15, 16, or 18... two vertical 
> stabilizers,
> > twin engines, swing-wings...
> >
> Doug,
>     Sounds like you're talking about F-14s.  The best way to tell 
> planes
> apart is by stabilizers, F-14s have two vertical stabilizers, F-16s 
> have
> one vertical stabilizer, F-18s have two stablizers that look like a 
> V.
> F-15s have two vertical stabilizers like F-14s, but F-14s have swing
> wings, while F-15s have fixed wings (I believe).
> 
> Justin

Pic of several F-15E Strike Eagles:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/874228.asp?0dm=C11TO