Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. will continue to reduce the number of workers employed in its F-16 Fighting Falcon program. through 2006, the company said Tuesday....

Lockheed Martin, builder of the world's only 5th generation fighter aircraft flying today, provided an F/A-22 Raptor program update detailing the game-changing advantages and unmatched capabilities that only the F/A-22 can bring to the United States and its allies....

The Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor team marked another milestone today toward operational fielding of the F/A-22 when the U.S. Air Force officially began Follow-On Test and Evaluation (FOT&E) at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) in Nevada....

An Indiana Air National Guard Fighter Wing based in Terre Haute is headed overseas for the third time. More than 350 members of the 181st Fighter Wing will be stationed somewhere in the region of Iraq, Afghanistan and the western Pacific for up to four months.
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Training young pilots to push the F-16 Fighting Falcon to its operational limits is a job Lt. Col. David Stine loves as much as flying. Even better is doing both those things with the Royal Netherlands Air Force, he said. ...

The BRAC Commission's final deliberations take place Wednesday, 24 August through Saturday, 27 August. During this period, the nine Commissioners will be voting on DoD's recommendations to close or realign various military installations across the country. ...

The 100th F-16 wing box, manufactured by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) was delivered on August 17, 2005 to Lockheed Martin. IAI's Lahav Division manufactures F-16 wing boxes worth over $100 million....

A maintenance crew's failure to put seals on an engine part caused an F-16D to crash into a Charleston marsh April 18, according to an Air Force report released today....

The GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team (FET) has been awarded a contract valued at $2.4 billion to develop its F136 engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program....

After initially being grounded because of a mid-air collision at an air show in Chicago, the Thunderbirds will be ready to fly again this weekend at the Westfield International Air Show 2005, Massachusetts....

An aerial performance by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds was cut short Saturday after a missile rail fell from an F-16C during the Chicago Air and Water Show. It seems that the right wingtip missile rail of the "slot," or number-four, touched the left horizontal stabilizer of the right wingman and thus broke off....

Yesterday, a new commander took charge of the 20th Fighter Wing at Shaw AFB. Col. William Hyatt assumes command from Col. Philip Ruhlman, who is headed to the Pentagon as vice director of the Air Force Studies and Analyses Agency....

Aircraft from the U.S. Air Force and the Royal Air Force joined forces for a training exercise at Royal Air Force Lakenheath Aug. 17 to 19. Excalibur, a multination bombing competition, is an opportunity for aircrew members to test their skills and pit their wits against each other....

Six F-16s from the Royal Danish Air Force are headed to the Nevada desert in the United States to participate in Red Flag, one of the most realistic training scenarios in the world for combat aircraft....

Silicon Graphics today announced that a high-fidelity Night Vision Goggle (NVG) simulation system has been successfully developed and fielded at Luke AFB, Ariz., a U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command facility. ...

Two Greek F-16s where scrambled from their base on Sunday, August 14th around 11.30h local to intercept a Helios Airways B737 in Greek airspace....

Two Dutch F-16's Juliet-33 and Juliet-45 scrambled from their base on Wednesday August 10th 12:14Z to intercept a Delta Boeing 767-332(ER) N195DN in the Netherlands airspace....

Several hundred members of the 147th Fighter Wing based at Ellington Field, Houston, texas are about to head to Iraq. It is the first combat deployment for the 147th since the Korean War. ...

Combining two aircraft missions into one is not an easy feat, but that is exactly what engineers and pilots from here and Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., are testing. In the process, they have also combined operational and developmental into one testing effort....

Several hundred members of the Ohio Air National Guard's 180th Fighter Wing, based at Toledo Express Airport, will deploy to the Middle East during the coming weeks to support U.S. military operations there....

Lockheed Martin held ceremonies at its Fort Worth, Tex., facility yesterday to celebrate the delivery of the first F-16 aircraft to the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO). ...

The Belgian Secretary of Defence - A. Flahaut - visited Afghanistan on July 22nd till 24th, where he paid a visit to the Belgian troops, contributing to the "ISAF" (International Security Assistance Force) 'peace force' under NATO command in Kondoz and Kabul. ...

Last monday the nosewheel of a Belgian F-16AM (#FA-83) from Kleine Brogel AB collapsed on the taxiway, in the final turn to the runway. ...

Cuban 8, Triple, Knife Edge. High G Turn. It's all in a day's work for Capt. Chris Schneider, Pacific Air Forces' new F-16 demonstration pilot....