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Lockheed Martin and RNLAF celebrate rollout of the First Dutch operational F-35
Dutch and American officials celebrated the roll out of the first operational F-35A Lightning II for the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas, commemorating a transformational leap in capability for the future of the Netherlands' national defense.

F-16 VDT announces new pilot
Gen. Mike Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command, certified the new F-16 Viper Demonstration Team pilot and commander ahead of the 2019 season, January, 29.

“Tigers” roar through Red Flag 19-1
U.S. Airmen assigned to the 79th Fighter Squadron and 20th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 79th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, are participating in Exercise Red Flag 19-1 from Jan. 26 – Feb. 15.

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F-16 Fleet Status

F-16 fleet - Feb 16, 2019
	Fleet overview: scrapped: 128 write-off: 609 preserved: 147 stored: 639 instructional: 105 on order: 0 active: 2939
	Changes '17/'18: Fleet adds: 0 Fleet drop: 31
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Today in F-16 history

16 Feb 2004
A scrapped F-16 is put up for auction on Ebay, with a starting price of $1 million.
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Quote of the Day

Character is what you do when no one is looking.

-- Unknown

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Tactical Nuke

USAF #85416
F-16C Block 25

A rare shot illustrating the nuclear role of the F-16: a USAF F-16C from the 10th TFS at Hahn AB in Germany seen carrying a BDU-38 simulator (B-61 nuclear dummy). The aircraft was participating in the weapons training deployment Exercise Sabre Thunder over the Bardenas-Reales Range on June 1st, 1988.

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F-16 Forum

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	Looking for info/pictures on the NF-16D ...	basher54321
	F-16 wing loading debate	f-16adf
	Initial Version of Missile-SIM for Perfo...	litzj

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F-22 and F-35 Forum

	UK MOD in a muddle over F-35C	spazsinbad
	F-35A at Red Flag 19-1	jetblast16
	The Turkey problem	spazsinbad
	Radar jamming ability	steve2267
	DoD to begin negotiations to buy 485 Loc...	weasel1962
	F-35Bs Establishing potential of Austral...	spazsinbad
	F-22 IRST	disconnectedr...

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Military Aviation Forum

	Weight Savings of Fly by Wire?	sprstdlyscott...
	SU-57 deployed to Syria	swiss
	Gripen News	loke
	The SLUF	charlielima223
	F-15X: USAF Seems Interested	quicksilver

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	C-130 Jobs Mech 3 & 2 Electrician &a...	ave8or
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	Verifying Nacelle Overheat Detector	evan.st.cyr
	High altitude Hercules on top fuel?	boilermaker
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Callsign of the day

Callsign "GriffDog"

Anyone in our squadron who had to answer the call of nature (number 2) while flying got "Dog" appended to their callsign

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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 2018-08-14	Lt.Col. Maurice "Skunk" Schonk \| 323 sqn \| 323 sqn \| 323 sqn
	3,000 Hrs 2018-06-08	Lt.Col. Grant "Goo" Gooch 124 FS \| 124 FS \| 182 FS
	2,000 Hrs 2018-04-25	Maj. Hong "Thirsty Soul" Joo Han \| 157 FS
	1,000 Hrs 2018-06-27	Capt. Andreas "Darda" Dardamanelis 116 PM
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