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First Danish F-35 handed over.
Today the first Danish F-35 (#L-001) was handed over to the Danish Flyvevåbnet in a ceremony at Lockheed. This markss the formal start of the Danish F-35 program albeit the jet was already flying in January conducting numerous rigorous tests at NAS Fort Worth.

Two Belgian F-16s intercept Russian bombers over North Sea
Two Belgian F-16s took off on Monday morning from Florennes Air Base to intercept Russian bombers approaching the Dutch airspace over the North Sea. The Russian aircraft were approaching Dutch airspace.

Romania's last F-16 delivered
Today the last Romanian F-16 under the Peace Carpathian II program was delivered. F-16A #1615 left Monte Real AB in the early morning to make a stop-over at Aviano AB for its final destination at Feteşti AB.

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F-16 Fleet Status

F-16 fleet - May 9, 2021
	Fleet overview: scrapped: 155 write-off: 617 preserved: 155 stored: 576 instructional: 109 on order: 129 active: 2937
	Changes '20/'21: Fleet adds: 129 Fleet drop: 36
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Today in F-16 history

9 May 1974
YF-16 no 2 (#72-1568) is flown for the first time with test pilot Neil Anderson at the controls.
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9 May 2000
USAF orders 10 more F-16s.
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Quote of the Day

Helicopters don't fly, they beat the wind into submission!

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Ground Zero

USAF #91401
F-16C Block 52

Wore 13 mission markings and 4 HARM markings for Operation Enduring Freedom. The nose art is of a fireman at ground zero reaching for a soldier and large american flag.The art work is by TSgt. Robbie Leist and SSgt. Chad Marks. However, the 389 did not fire any Harms during OEF, so the HARM markings are from previous OSW deployments.

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F-16 Forum

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F-22 and F-35 Forum

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Callsign of the day

Callsign "Mubto"

Monkey Undergoing Brain Transplant Operation In a sentence, MUBTO warned Speed Bump to not complain about his call sign. Earn a better one. That's how he got Speed Bump and then Clownboy.

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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 2021-04-20	Lt.Col. Scott "Skinny" Thompson \| 195 FS
	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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