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Bored at your desk and in dire need of an adrenaline rush? Well now you can go for a quick sortie in an F-16 - without leaving your chair - thanks to a hidden feature in the recently launched Google Earth 4.2/Google Sky .

Egyptian and US Air Force officials participated in a ceremony in Cairo, Egypt on Aug. 25 commemorating the 25th anniversary of Egypt's acquisition of the F-16 Fighting Falcon.

F-16 test pilot Robert Ettinger will be inducted into the Walk of Honor in Lancaster, California, USA during a ceremony on September 15th.

Pakistan's Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mahmood has said that by December 2008, Pakistan will likely get 18 F-16s along with its technical-equipment, accessories, bombs, missiles and other required armaments.

The Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System, known as Auto-GCAS, is a software-based technology that has demonstrated a 98 percent effectiveness rate at eliminating aircraft crashes into the ground.

Norwegian F-16 fighter jets are headed to Iceland this week for a military exercise to practice defence of the island nation.

Four Portuguese F-16s will provide the aerial defense of the three Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania between November and December of this year.

Six F-16s and approximately 77 Airmen deployed to Tyndall AFB, for two weeks to play "red air" against the F-22 Raptor all in the name of training.

The U.S. government has awarded an initial $187 million for long-lead tasks as part of a $1.1 billion contract to Lockheed Martin for the production of 30 new Block 50 F-16 aircraft for Turkey.

The U.S. Air Force is sending its new MQ-9 Reaper UAVs to Afghanistan and Iraq. Not as reconnaissance aircraft, but as replacements for F-16 and F-15 fighter-bombers.

The Peace Onyx III F-16 modernization program kicked off at TUSAS Aerospace Industries (TAI) with the arrival of the first four F-16s at their facilities on 2 July 2007.

The United States on Tuesday started delivery of F-16 aircraft to Pakistan when two were flown from the US & were handed over to the Pakistani Air Force in a ceremony at PAF Mushaf.

A South Carolina Air National Guard pilot passed an aviation milestone Monday.

The craziness about Jatukham amulets is literally taking new heights as the RTAF is taking some much-sought-after amulets on routine flights on F-16 fighters in the hope of boosting their supernatural powers and market value.

Lockheed Martin has about four months to secure the sale of dozens of F-16 fighter aircraft to Taiwan, but some are predicting the US may not support the sale because of Chinese opposition.