Since entering service in 1979, the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon has been battle-tested, engaging in more than 400,000 combat sorties, and has a combined 19 million flight hours. It has been ...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy almost developed its own version of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, known as the Vought Model 1600. This carrier-capable variant, a collaboration between General ...
In the end, Dallas-based Vought Aircraft Industries Inc. - once a part of industrial giant LTV Corp. - wasn't big enough. "Scale means a lot in this industry," Vought chief executive Elmer Doty said ...
The airplanes of the Second World War have been incredible machines. Designed and built on fast-forward to meet the ever-changing requirements of combat situations, they all, almost without exception, ...