The well worn tailhook of one of the American F/A-18 Super Hornets from VFA-122. Pay close attention to the differences inside the afterburner exhausts of this F/A-18 to the same thing in the Canadian CF-18 photo coming up. I am not sure what all those retangular inserts are used for in the American plane.

The well worn tailhook of one of the American F/A-18 Super Hornets from VFA-122. Pay close attention to the differences inside the afterburner exhausts of this F/A-18 to the same thing in the Canadian CF-18 photo coming up. I am not sure what all those retangular inserts are used for in the American plane.