(FILES) A 24 July, 2002 file photo provided by the US Navy shows an F/A18 Super Hornet piloted by Lieutenant Corey L. Pritchard making the first carrier landing of the new aircraft onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Boeing has won a 9.6 billion dollars contract to supply the US Navy with 210 F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter aircraft and to develop a new version of the plane for electronic warfare, the company said 29 December. (Kittie VandenBosch/US Navy AFP PHOTO
(FILES) A 24 July, 2002 file photo provided by the US Navy shows an F/A18 Super Hornet piloted by Lieutenant Corey L. Pritchard making the first carrier landing of the new aircraft onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Boeing has won a 9.6 billion dollars contract to supply the US Navy with 210 F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter aircraft and to develop a new version of the plane for electronic warfare, the company said 29 December. (Kittie VandenBosch/US Navy AFP PHOTO