Forum: F-16 Spotting & Photography

Last edited by air-to-air on Nov 23, 2011 - 09:08 AM; edited 1 time in total

According to the database F-16CM 89-2144, which was damaged at Bagram, is repaired again. There are also reports that it is stored at AMARG? Who can supply updated info?

Thanks
Dennis

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Dennis, no record of it being here at AMARG. I don't think anything newer than a Block 25 has been retired yet.

Some small-mouth block 30's are also there, but few if any newer ones.

Boman wrote:

Some small-mouth block 30's are also there

How Blk 30 could be a 'small mouth' - isn't that x0 series Vipers with GE engines?

Patriot wrote:

How Blk 30 could be a 'small mouth' - isn't that x0 series Vipers with GE engines?

Grasshopper …. I seek not to know the answers, but to understand the questions.

The F110 provided 5,000 pounds more thrust than the F100, and required a larger amount of air. This in turn required that the area of the air intake be increased. However, this change was not made at first, and early F-16C/D Block 30's are "small inlet" aircraft.

http://www.f-16.net/f-16_versions_article6.html

The small mouth changed to big-mouth starting from tail number 86-0262. All block 30's prior to this are small mouths, all after are big-mouths.
But this is besides the original topic Wink

uslugg1 wrote:

Dennis, no record of it being here at AMARG. I don't think anything newer than a Block 25 has been retired yet.

according to www.amarc.info it arrived for storage at DM on 20 july 2011

So if until the small mouth have become big one - how F110 engines that requires more airflow fared with that small intake? Why General Dynamics didn't build GE powered planes first off with the big-mouth intakes? How many NSI GE powered planes were built ?

Patriot,
All these questions are answered if you read up on the Reference section.

Forum: F-16 Spotting & Photography

89-2144 which was damaged at Bagram repaired now?