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New F-16 Ghost paint scheme brings unique look to 64th AGRS
An F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet (#84-1220) made its initial flight after receiving the first U.S. Air Force "Ghost" paint scheme, May 23.

Lockheed Martin to sell 114 exclusive F-21s to India?
It seems that Lockheed Martin will not offer its F-21 fighter, customized to suit India, to any other country if the Indian Air Force (IAF) places an order for 114 jets that it currently looking to acquire.

Armed F-16 crashes into a warehouse in California, pilot ok
An armed F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday into a warehouse just off March Air Reserve Base in Perris, California.

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F-16 Fleet Status

F-16 fleet - May 27, 2019
	Fleet overview: scrapped: 149 write-off: 609 preserved: 149 stored: 612 instructional: 102 on order: 0 active: 2949
	Changes '18/'19: Fleet adds: 0 Fleet drop: 35
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Today in F-16 history

27 May 1999
1,000th combat sortie - marked during NATO's Operation Allied Force by an F-16CG from the 555th FS.
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Quote of the Day

Flying an aeroplane with only a single propellor to keep you in the air. Can you imagine that?

-- Capt. Picard, in STTNG episode Booby Trap

F-16 Hall of Fame

Dorsal Spine

NASA #75750
NF-16A

In 1982 the 6th Full-Scale Development (FSD) aircraft was modified as Advanced Fighter Technology Integration (AFTI) testbed, which included the canards from the YF-16 CCV and a dorsal spine. The dorsal spine would eventually make it to some production model F-16s. First program was the Digital Flight Control System (DFCS) in which a total of 108 flights were executed untill July of 1983.

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F-16 Forum

	F-16 wings thinness	jetblast16
	Block 50 Fun	Fox1
	DCS F-16C	gtg947h
	New F-16 Ghost paint scheme brings uniqu...	VarkVet
	Flyovers several days per Week	jaws
	Looking for the Code One Deep Stall arti...	FDiron
	F-16A vs F-15A in BFM performance.	firebase99

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F-22 and F-35 Forum

	F-35A versus Saab Grippen NG	knowan
	UK F-35Bs first deployment	spazsinbad
	Operational Performace Comparison: Viper...	optimist
	The Turkey problem	spazsinbad
	New Heritage Foundation Report	gc
	Screensaver worthy Lightning shots	spazsinbad
	Can the F-35 match the PAK-FA	SpudmanWP

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Military Aviation Forum

	How effective are CIWS?	SpudmanWP
	F-15X: USAF Seems Interested	Corsair1963
	RCS for dummies	ricnunes
	Secret Clearance process	marcelt
	F-16 From March ARB crashes into Warehou...	SpudmanWP

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From C-130.net

	7406th Support Squadron	neilonj
	KC-130T (mishap)	sigurdq
	Buy European Fake Passport, Belgium Fake...	neilonj
	History of C-130E 63-7872	stratoart
	Blue Angel's Fat Albert, C-130T aircraft...	mekong68

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Callsign of the day

Callsign "Drippy"

Dutch Pilot in training in the USA. Being from Europe, he wasn't used to the hot weather. He sweated so much, that the American pilots called him Drippy.

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Sierra Hotel

Latest Viper Drivers to reach 1K - 6K flying hours:

	6,000 Hrs 2008-05-02	Lt.Col. Mike "Brillo" Brill \| 466 FS \| 421 FS
	5,000 Hrs 2014-01-04	Lt.Col. Robert "T. Rex" Carpenter , Jr \| 162 FW \| 148 FS \| 1 sqn
	4,000 Hrs 2019-01-16	Col. Bradley "Divot" Jackson \| 179 FS \| 179 FS
	3,000 Hrs 2018-06-08	Lt.Col. Grant "Goo" Gooch 124 FS \| 124 FS \| 182 FS
	2,000 Hrs 2018-10-24	Maj. Nicolas "Harly" Maes 349 sqn \| OCU
	1,000 Hrs 2018-11-29	Lt.Col. Ronald "Pastar" Tong 145 sqn
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