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Lockheed Martin awarded F-16 Depot Sustainment Program
The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $900 million contract to provide sustainment support and depot-overflow services for F-16 aircraft.

Guard F-16 crashes in Wisconsin
A Wisconsin Air National Guard F-16 crashed in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Tuesday night, unfortunately the pilot did not survive.

Luke pilot reaches a rare milestone, surpasses 3k flying hours in F-16
As of November 23, 2020, only 295 pilots worldwide could claim to have surpassed three thousand flying hours in the F-16 Fighting Falcon. That number is now 296.

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F-16 Fleet Status

F-16 fleet - Jan 24, 2021
	Fleet overview: scrapped: 152 write-off: 617 preserved: 153 stored: 610 instructional: 107 on order: 1 active: 2916
	Changes '19/'20: Fleet adds: 0 Fleet drop: 22
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Quote of the Day

Mix ignorance with arrogance at low altitude and the results are almost guaranteed to be spectacular.

-- Burce Landsberg, AOPA Safety Foundation

F-16 Hall of Fame

YF-16 Prototype

USAF #01567
YF-16

Rolled out at Fort Worth, Texas on December 13th, 1973. First flight on January 20th, 1974 which is the very first flight of an F-16. It had been moved in a C-5 galaxy 12 days prior on January 8th, 1974 and assembled for first flight. The first flight wasn't supposed to happen, but during high speed taxi trials the aircraft lifted off with the only option for the pilot was to proceed and fly. In the first stages the right-hand stab hit the runway a couple of times creating some damage to it.

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F-16 Forum

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	The comprehensive HG5 topic	viperimages
	JASDF F-2 Update	Gamera
	85-440	dockrat
	Croatia begins evaluating new fighters	hythelday
	Fuel Flow Question	sprstdlyscott...
	F-16 drops CSDBs in test flight	basher54321

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F-22 and F-35 Forum

	S-400 and F-35	element1loop
	Distributed ops: Will rapid Raptor reall...	element1loop
	Inside the F-35s cockpit	element1loop
	Roper Hints NGAD Could Replace F-35; Why...	KamenRiderBlade
	Screensaver worthy Lightning shots	spazsinbad
	AF pitches buying F-16s because of F-35 ...	glennwhitten
	F-35 versus F-15EX	doge

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Military Aviation Forum

	Chuck Yeager dies	spazsinbad
	Su-57 Felon	spazsinbad
	A-4 Skyhawk vs Mirage III	f-16adf
	Comparison by Spurts	sprstdlyscott...
	Fighter jets with vector thurst not wort...	Gamera

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From C-130.net

	Lockheed C-130H Hercules Royal Jordanian...	muc-spotter
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	NOW HIRING A&P, structures and avion...	tgrecruiting
	Chilean Air Force C-130 crash in Drake P...	6bev
	C-130B model Right Landing Retraction Ti...	munirabbasi

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Callsign of the day

Callsign "Trax"

Passed out on the railroad tracks in his Choker Whites after a tough night at an airwing party.

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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 2019-01-16	Col. Bradley "Divot" Jackson \| 179 FS \| 179 FS
	3,000 Hrs 2020-11-24	Maj. Sean "Double" Rassas \| 69 FS \| 944 FW
	2,000 Hrs 2020-02-27	Lt.Col. Tse Chao "Ricky Bobby" Ying 17 TFG \| 21 TFG
	1,000 Hrs 2019-10-25	Capt. Ahmed "Cougar" Abou Zeid 68 TFS
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