Hornet (disambiguation)

A hornet is an insect. It may also mean:

Insects

• a colloquial term for an American wasp, for example the Bald-faced hornet, White-faced hornet or Cicada killer wasp

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Aviation

• ABC Hornet, a World-War 1, aircraft engine
• De Havilland Hornet, a World War 2-era combat aircraft
• De Havilland Hornet Moth, a cabin biplane
• F/A-18 Hornet, a jet combat aircraft
  • CF-18 Hornet, a Canadian variant
  • F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
• Harkness Hornet, 1920s, Australian, aircraft engine
• Messerschmitt Me 410, Hornisse ("Hornet"), a World War 2, German, aircraft
• Hornet, a name for the Glasflügel 206 glider
• Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet, aero engine produced 1926–1942
• Sport Hornet LRS, light aircraft
• US Light Aircraft Hornet, ultralight aircraft

Maritime

• Hornet (clipper), an 1851 clipper ship which raced Flying Cloud around Cape Horn
• Hornet (dinghy), a type of sailing dinghy
• HMS Hornet, ten ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Hornet, eight ships of the U.S. Navy
  • USS Hornet Museum, museum based on one of those ships, Alameda, California

Road

• AMC Hornet, a compact car manufactured from 1970 to 1977
• Dodge Hornet, a concept car revealed in 2006
• Honda Hornet, a motorcycle from the Honda CB series
• Hornet (car), sports car based on the Lotus Seven
• Hudson Hornet, a car manufactured from 1951 to 1957
• Wolseley Hornet (1930), a 1930s car

Weaponry

• .17 Hornet, type of rifle cartridge
• .22 Hornet, type of rifle cartridge
• AGM-64 Hornet, an experimental American missile
• Humber Hornet, British armoured car
• Medium Mark C Hornet, a British tank
• M93 HORNET mine, US anti–tank mine
• F/A-18 Hornet, US multirole fighter jet

Fiction

• A fictional monster in the TV series Code Lyoko
• Hornet (comics), a name shared by three Marvel characters
• Hornet (comic), a British comic of the 1960s-1970s
• Hornet vehicle from the video game series, Halo
• Hornet Interceptor, a fictional spaceacrft featured in the expanded Star Wars Universe
• Hornet Squadron, fictional RAF squadron in a series of books by Derek Robinson
• Hornet (Gobots), a fictional alien cyborg shapeshifter from the Gobots fiction.
• Green Hornet
• A hull in Tanki Online.

Sports teams

School and college teams

• California State University, Sacramento Hornets
  • Harry the Hornet, the aforementioned mascot
• Concordia Hornets
• Delaware State University Hornets
• Emporia State Hornets
• Kalamazoo College Hornets
• Surrattsville High School Hornets
• Midwood High School Hornets
• {Hamilton High West Hornets, Hamilton, NJ
• Herndon High School Hornets, Herndon, VA

Ice–hockey teams

• Bracknell Hornets, British team
• Cambridge Hornets, Canadian team from Cambridge, Ontario
• Herlev Hornets, Danish ice-hockey team
• Huntington Hornets, former U.S. team
• Langley Hornets, former name of the Canadian team, Westside Warriors
• Pittsburgh Hornets, former U.S. team
• Thunder Bay Hornets, former Canadian, junior team

Other

• Charlotte Hornets, several sports teams
• Cleveland Hornets, former baseball team
• Dandy Town Hornets F.C., Bermuda soccer team
• Howick Hornets, New Zealand, rugby league team
• Hull Hornets, British, American Football team
• Montreal Hornets, former Canadian rugby union team
• New Orleans Hornets, National Basketball Association team
• Rochdale Hornets, professional, rugby league team
• Rochdale Hornets (speedway), former speedway team
• Watford FC, known as 'The Hornets' after their mascot

Other uses

• Hornet Township, Minnesota
• Hornet, Missouri
• Hornet Archive, a PC demo FTP site from 1992 to 1998, and the name of the group that maintained it
• Hornet SQL Bridge, an Object Relational mapping for Zope and Plone
• Hornet, an amusement ride in Amarillo, Texas, originally known as Mayan Mindbender