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Viper Demo Team Secretly Painted Jet In YF-16 Scheme To Celebrate Type's 50th Anniversary
The USAF's F-16 single-ship demo team set out on a secret mission to paint their jet just like the first F-16 that ever flew.
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F-16 turns 50: Unraveling the enduring appeal of a half-century-old combat aircraft design
In addition to the 148 F-16s currently on order and in manufacturing, another 40 units are poised to join them, this time ...
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The Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet Is Still Deadly After Nearly 50 Years
But the prototype from which the F/A-18 was developed ... The Air Force passed on the YF-17, opting instead for the YF-16, which would become the F-16 Fighting Falcon. The Navy, however, would ...