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421st Fighter Squadron returns to Hill AFB
Hundreds of Airmen from the expeditionary 421st Fighter Squadron returned here today following a six-month deployment to Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates.

First USAF pilot hits 1,000 flying hours in F-35A
On October 22, 388th Fighter Wing pilots flew a four-on-six tactical intercept mission over the Utah Test and Training Range in the F-35A Lightning II, using sensors and stealth to take on the enemy. The sortie lasted roughly two hours.

AI defeats top Viper driver in DARPA’s dogfight contest
A computer program easily beat a veteran U.S. F-16 pilot in five rounds of simulated F-16 flight combat during a competition intended to spur the development of artificial intelligence that helps pilots during aerial dogfights.

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F-16 Fleet Status

F-16 fleet - Oct 31, 2020
	Fleet overview: scrapped: 152 write-off: 616 preserved: 152 stored: 612 instructional: 106 on order: 3 active: 2912
	Changes '19/'20: Fleet adds: 0 Fleet drop: 35
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Today in F-16 history

31 Oct 1991
First production F-16C block 50 (#90-0801) is delivered to the USAF at Fort Worth, where it will remain until early 1992 for tasks related to fleet introduction.

Quote of the Day

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

-- William Langewische, 2001

F-16 Hall of Fame

From F-16A to F-16XL/B

USAF #75747
F-16XL/B

One of the original F-16A Full-Scale Development aircraft. The aircraft crash landed on Rogers dry lake bed at Edwards AFB due to a blown nose gear tire on take off during the annual open house air show. The pilot survived unharmed but very shaken. It was shipped to General Dynamics Fort Worth in a C-5 and rebuilt into the first cranked-arrow F-16XL, flying back to Edwards one year later on December 2nd, 1981. It was later converted into a dual-seat F-16XL/B. First flight in its new configuration was on October 29th, 1982.

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Callsign of the day

Callsign "Mikey"

Capt Mike Crandall. From the cereal commercial: "Mikey will do/eat anything". Referred to his willingness to help out his squadron mates or maybe something deeper he didn't want to get into.

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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 2019-08-05	Maj. Emre Mert \| 151 Filo \| 132 Filo
	2,000 Hrs 2020-02-05	Lt.Col. Scott "Cipher" Fann 77 FS \| 416 FLTS
	1,000 Hrs 2019-10-25	Capt. Ahmed "Cougar" Abou Zeid 68 TFS
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