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Crew chief Staff Sgt. Adam Murtishaw does a post flight inspection on an F-22A Raptor at Langley AFB after a Dec. 14 mission. The 27th Fighter Squadron earned initial operating capability today, which means the stealth jet is combat ready. Sergeant Murtishaw is with the 27th...

A BAF F-16B at the 1993 airshow at Florennes AB with port side gun and ammo drum installation. [F-16.net photo]

A full-scale F-35 Joint Strike Fighter model is perched atop a pedestal overlooking a rural valley in central New York. Engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory's antenna research and measurement facility here are testing the aircraft's sophisticated antenna. The model...
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Mishap at Edwards AFB, aircraft #88-0456 a heavily modified block 42. It was flying a test mission with an, at the time, one of a kind Pratt and Whitney F100-PW229. It is believed there was a compressor stall followed by a turbine shell out. The pilot failed to get the...

Israeli F-16 [Photo by Idan Ben-Mair]

The first two of Israel's F-16I's (#407 and #408) landed at the Ramon Israel Air Force base in the Negev on February 19th, 2004. [Photo by Yuval]

AIM-9 detail of USAF F-16C block 40 #88-0421 who crashed into F-16C block 40 #88-0516 at Al Udeid AB, Qatar on June 15th, 2003. Both aircraft suffered severe damage and it was a miracle hat nobody was hurt, considering the fact that the F-16 who was hit was the first of 7 in a...

Belgian news coverage (in Dutch) of F-16 crashes, featuring footage of several mishaps: F-16A #FA-33 on August 19th, 1986; F-16AM #FA-96 on January 8th, 2002; F-16BM #FB-19 on April 24th, 2002 and the Thunderbirds crash at Mountain Home. [VRT news video]

A close look at the teeth of the Wild Weasel: two 35th FW F-16CJ-50s carrying HTS pod, 2x AIM-9M 2x AIM-120, 2x AGM-88, ECM pod, and 2x 370gal fuel tanks. [USAF photo]