F-16 Program Highlights

F-35 Diverterless Supersonic Inlet Testing
14 October 2015
The unassuming fuselage bump performs miracles that only aeronautical engineers fully appreciate.

SEMPER VIPER!
1 August 2015
Joe Bill Dryden's First Article In His Semper Viper Series

Thrust Vectoring In The Real World
7 April 2015
Tactical utility of a multi-axis thrust-vectoring system tested on an F-16 in 1994.

NATO’s Joint Air Mission
20 February 2015
The thirty-sixth NATO deployment to secure air space over the Baltic States began on 1 September 2014 when four F-16s of the Portuguese Air Force, or Força Aérea Portuguesa, landed in Lithuania.

Tribute To John R. Boyd
28 January 2015
Many years after that chance meeting in Florida, the F-16 has done John Boyd proud.

What A Wonderful Airplane: YF-16 First Flight
19 January 2015
Test pilot recounts the first flight of the F-16 prototype.

History Of The F-16 Fighting Falcon
19 February 2014
The original F-16 was designed as a lightweight air-to-air day fighter. F-16s that followed expanded and refined these roles.

Singapore Black Knights F-16 Demonstration Team
7 February 2014
The Republic of Singapore Air Force’s Black Knights aerobatics team will perform at the 2014 Singapore Airshow.

F-16 Design Origins
4 February 2014
The YF-16 incorporated technologies never used in previous operational fighters.

USAF Thunderbirds Sixtieth Anniversary
14 November 2013
The demonstration squadron performed its first aerial display on 16 June 1953.