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On October 5, 1993, Langley's F-16XL High Lift jet was rolled out with a dynamic yellow and black paint job for Aero-Dynamic Flow Studies in High Speed Research.

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Only 2 F-16XLs Were Ever Built — One Flew Alongside an SR-71 Blackbird to Help NASA Measure Sonic Booms

General Dynamics stretched the F-16's fuselage about 56 inches, removed its ventral fins, and swapped its wing for a cranked-arrow delta with no horizontal...

Caleb Larson3 days ago

An Air Force F-16 Viper taxis just a few hundred feet from the wall of fire at the Fort Worth Alliance Air Show, Oct. 28, 2017 at Fort Worth, Texas. (Courtesy photo by Air Force Viper Demo Team)

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‘I heard a shout and turned round to see an F-16 on fire’: An F-16 Fighter crashed at Nellis and hydrazine from its emergency unit trapped an RAF Vulcan crew inside the bomber

During the last Red Flag to fly an Avro Vulcan, in 1982, a crashing F-16 released hydrazine at Nellis. The RAF crew was ordered...

Shay Bottomley5 days ago

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US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon Fighter Fleet is Getting a New Mission Computer

The Air Force will hold an October 20–21 industry day at Wright-Patterson for the F-16 Next-Generation Mission Computer, replacing the Modular Mission Computer on...

Georgia Gilholy6 days ago

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Denmark’s F-35s landed in Greenland for the first time after flying from Keflavik with U.S. F-16s and Canadian CF-18s and the same week a Russian frigate fired flares at a Danish Fennec while Copenhagen Nuuk and Washington prepared a September 22 Arctic security deal

Two Danish F-35As landed at Kangerlussuaq on September 16, the first of the type on a Greenlandic runway, after training with U.S. F-16s and...

Georgia Gilholy6 days ago

F-4 Phantom Fighter Creative Commons Image

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The F-4 ‘Super’ Phantom Would Have Had New Engines and a Doubled Range: The F-15, F-16 and F/A-18 Fighters Made Sure It Never Flew Anywhere

Boeing and Israel rebuilt the F-4 Phantom for more thrust and range. $12 million a jet. Neither Super Phantom entered production.

Caleb Larson6 days ago

An air to air left underside view of an F-16XL aircraft. The aircraft is armed with two wing tip mounted AIM-9 Sidewinder and four fuselage mounted AIM-7 Sparrow missiles along with 12 500-pound bombs.

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Only Two F-16XL Fighters Were Built. They Lost to the F-15E in 1984, Flew for NASA to 1999, and Retired in 2009. A Video Game Is Flying Them Again.

On September 16 the combat flight game War Thunder added the F-16XL as the headline aircraft of a new event, a jet only two...

Jack BuckbySeptember 18, 2026

An F-16 assigned to the 416th Flight Test Squadron flies into position over the Precision Impact Range Area on Edwards Air Force Base, California, Feb. 26. The successful drop test was in support of the Korea F-16 Update Program. The ROKAF currently operates 133 KF-16C/D Block 50/52 fighter aircraft, all of which will undergo extensive modernization and upgrades as part of the comprehensive improvement program. Lockheed Martin was awarded a $1.2 billion contract to retrofit the 133 KF-16s and upgrade them to the advanced F-16V configuration, which is the latest technologically and most advanced version of the fourth generation fighter jet. (Air Force photo by Ethan Wagner)

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The US Air Force Would Be Getting a ‘Super’ F-16 In the F-16G Fighter By Lockheed Martin

The US Air Force could soon make a purchase of the F-16G fighter by Lockheed Martin. In a world that sports massive upgrades of...

Reuben JohnsonSeptember 18, 2026

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft flies in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility Sept. 5, 2026. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Tiffany A. Emery)

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The New F-16G Fighting Falcon Fighter Has a Message for the US Air Force

The US Air Force in the coming years could get a new version of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the F-16G, from Lockheed Martin.

Georgia GilholySeptember 17, 2026

Block 70 F-16 Fighter Lockheed Martin Photo Handout

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Lockheed Martin, the company behind the F-35 and F-22, lost the Air Force’s sixth-generation jet to Boeing and is now pitching a new F-16 — a fourth-generation fighter the service stopped buying 20 years ago — because it needs 460 more jets by 2035 and cannot stand up new stealth lines fast enough

The F-16G would be a good Viper. The argument is whether America can afford to buy the past in order to have enough aircraft...

Brandon WeichertSeptember 17, 2026

U.S. Air Force Maj. Kristin Wolfe performs a demonstration in the F-35A Lightning II during at the Reno Air Races in Reno, Nevada, September 19, 2021. The F-35 Lightning II Demonstration Team is based out of Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nicolas Myers)

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Poland Has Taken Delivery of 8 of Its F-35A Husarz Fighters and Spent Close to $700,000,000 Rebuilding 1 Airbase to Receive Them. The 6th US Loan Guarantee, Signed on 9 September, Brings American Military Financing to Warsaw to Nearly $20,000,000,000 — All of It Repayable With Interest.

The sixth US-Poland loan guarantee was signed at the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw on 9 September, worth $4 billion. Within hours European outlets...

Reuben JohnsonSeptember 15, 2026

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Only 2 F-16XLs Were Ever Built — One Flew Alongside an SR-71 Blackbird to Help NASA Measure Sonic Booms

Aerospace & Defense

‘I heard a shout and turned round to see an F-16 on fire’: An F-16 Fighter crashed at Nellis and hydrazine from its emergency unit trapped an RAF Vulcan crew inside the bomber

Aerospace & Defense

US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon Fighter Fleet is Getting a New Mission Computer

Aerospace & Defense

Denmark’s F-35s landed in Greenland for the first time after flying from Keflavik with U.S. F-16s and Canadian CF-18s and the same week a Russian frigate fired flares at a Danish Fennec while Copenhagen Nuuk and Washington prepared a September 22 Arctic security deal

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The F-4 ‘Super’ Phantom Would Have Had New Engines and a Doubled Range: The F-15, F-16 and F/A-18 Fighters Made Sure It Never Flew Anywhere

Aerospace & Defense

Only Two F-16XL Fighters Were Built. They Lost to the F-15E in 1984, Flew for NASA to 1999, and Retired in 2009. A Video Game Is Flying Them Again.

Aerospace & Defense

The US Air Force Would Be Getting a ‘Super’ F-16 In the F-16G Fighter By Lockheed Martin

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The New F-16G Fighting Falcon Fighter Has a Message for the US Air Force

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Poland Has Taken Delivery of 8 of Its F-35A Husarz Fighters and Spent Close to $700,000,000 Rebuilding 1 Airbase to Receive Them. The 6th US Loan Guarantee, Signed on 9 September, Brings American Military Financing to Warsaw to Nearly $20,000,000,000 — All of It Repayable With Interest.

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