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F-16 VDT announces new pilot
Jan 29, 2019 - Gen. Mike Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command, certified the new F-16 Viper Demonstration Team pilot and commander ahead of the 2019 season, January, 29. [Read more...]
F-16 Viper Demonstration Team prepares for upcoming season
Feb 06, 2017 - As preparations begin across the globe for the 2017 air show season, an elite team of Airmen assigned to Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina are hard at work getting ready for their new year debut. [Read more...]
QF-16 reaches operational capability milestone
Sep 27, 2016 - Air Combat Command declared Initial Operational Capability for the QF-16 Full-Scale Aerial Target September 23rd. [Read more...]
Spatial disorientation caused fatal F-16 crash in Gulf of Mexico
Sep 10, 2015 - An Air Force report says spatial disorientation caused a civilian pilot to fatally crash an F-16 last November in the Gulf of Mexico. A report by Air Combat Command at Langley AFB says LaCourse was intercepting another jet when he became disoriented. The maneuvers stimulated fluid in the pilot's inner ear canals that affect perceptions of gravity, movement and direction. [Read more...]
Team Target hits QF-16 mark
Sep 11, 2014 - The Air Force's newest aerial target took a major step toward preparing warfighters downrange with a realistic 4th generation replication of what they may face on the battlefield. [Read more...]
Landing by sight, low altitude blamed for F-16 jet crash near Bagram
Aug 27, 2013 - An F-16C pilot killed in an April crash near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan was flying low and didn’t see the mountains in his flight path because of bad weather, according to a recently completed investigation. [Read more...]
555th FS returns to flying
Jul 31, 2013 - Pilots in the 555th Fighter Squadron are overcoming various challenges as they return to flying status after a three-month hiatus from the cockpit due to sequestration. [Read more...]
USAF Thunderbirds to resume limited training flights
Jul 15, 2013 - Temporary funding for flying hours has been restored, allowing the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron to resume training flights again through the end of fiscal year 2013. [Read more...]
F-16s being regenerated into drones
Jul 11, 2013 - Less than three months after the last F-4 phantom II departed from the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group for drone conversion, maintainers here are already turning the wrenches on Air Combat Command's fourth generation of aerial targets, the F-16 Fighting Falcon. [Read more...]
Fresnos F-16C accident report released
Apr 11, 2013 - A series of pilot errors resulted in an F-16 (#87-0315 ) crashing in remote eastern California during a December training mission, according to an Air Force report released Tuesday. [Read more...]
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