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PictionID:43057953 - Catalog:14_003974 - Title:Atlas Centaur Details: Centaur; Pad 36; Removal of Engine from Centaur 04/18/1961 - Filename:14_003974.TIF - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
General Dynamics F-16A MLU (J-055) from the RNLAF (Netherlands) DEMO TEAM at the Open Days RNLAF Leeuwarden 2008 (see also WWW.F16DEMOTEAM.NL)
General Dynamics F-16C "Fighting Falcon" (Block 30B)
416th Flight Test Squadron, Edwards Air Force Base, California.
85-1547
ED
F-16C-30-CF
5C-289
416th FLTS
Active
1 May 2015
1 May 2015
A visit to Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona is a must for all aircraft enthusiasts as this is the home of AMARC (Aircraft Maintenance And Regeneration Center). The aircraft re-cycling division of the USA forces. The great aircraft boneyard in the Arizona desert holds around 4400 airframes with a book value of $23.6BN . Large numbers of KC-135, Lockheed Orion, C-130 Hercules and F-16 Fighting Falcons are currently stored here (2020); but there are plenty of more interesting aircraft too. In some cases, like the Delta Dart and Canberra, just one example is in store. There is currently a major programme to convert redundant F16C Fighting Falcons into Drone aircraft. Boeing has a contract to convert several hundred at a cost of $21M each - only for them to be shot down by modern weapons packages as part of F22 Lightning II training for pilots.
PictionID:44933126 - Catalog:14_015890 - Title:Model Details: Damage Outpost II; Side View of Model Nose Cone Fairing Date: 10/30/1959 - Filename:14_015890.tif - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
88486764 :Piction ID--Tomahawk missile being transported near Boeing B-52---Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---- Digitization of this image made possible by a grant from NEH: NEH and the San Diego Air and Space Museum
A visit to Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona is a must for all aircraft enthusiasts as this is the home of AMARC (Aircraft Maintenance And Regeneration Center). The aircraft re-cycling division of the USA forces. The great aircraft boneyard in the Arizona desert holds around 4400 airframes with a book value of $23.6BN . Large numbers of KC-135, Lockheed Orion, C-130 Hercules and F-16 Fighting Falcons are currently stored here (2020); but there are plenty of more interesting aircraft too. In some cases, like the Delta Dart and Canberra, just one example is in store. There is currently a major programme to convert redundant F16C Fighting Falcons into Drone aircraft. Boeing has a contract to convert several hundred at a cost of $21M each - only for them to be shot down by modern weapons packages as part of F22 Lightning II training for pilots.
Flying fast and creating shock waves. Although the aircraft is traveling at subsonic speed, locally the air can go supersonic. Two sets of shock waves are created: the first set as the air accelerates through Mach=1 and the second set as the air goes back Mach<1. The second set becomes visible due to the static pressure drop at the normal shock wave back into subsonic, which causes the air moisture to condense. Thus fluffy white clouds appear around the engine intake and around the tail. F-16AM Falcon FA-123 of the Belgian Air Force during the Royal International Air Tattoo 2015 in Fairford UK.
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Museum of Aviation,
Robins AFB, Georgia
Dec. 27, 2011
The RB-57F was developed from the Martin B-57B, as a very high altitude reconnaissance aircraft. Modified by General Dynamics, it featured a new wing with twice the area of the B-57B wing, along with enlarged tail surfaces. The standard engines were replaced with two GE TF-33 turbofan engines and two P&W J-60 jet engines. for additional thrust at cruising altitude.
A version of the aircraft was used for weather reconnaissance, including radiation sampling in support of nuclear test monitoring. They were redesignated WB in 1968.
Stress fractures in the wing spars and ribs forced the aircraft to be retired early. Three aircraft were transferred to NASA for research purposes.
PictionID:43051809 - Catalog:14_003989 - Title:Atlas 107D-Mercury Details: MA-7 Launch; Mercury Manned- Scott Carpenter 05/24/1962 - Filename:14_003989.TIF - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:43057902 - Catalog:14_003970 - Title:Atlas Launch Details: Atlas Launch; Art Board 12/08/1961 - Filename:14_003970.TIF - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
'88 526'/(88-0526) cn 1C-128 -
General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon -
USAF 'AV' 31st FW/555th FS gn -
Royal Intl. Air Tattoo RIAT '22 (Dep Day) -
RAF Fairford,
18-Jul-2022 Gloucestershire, England, GBR.
The 125th Fighter Squadron flies the F-16C Fighting Falcon. It is a unit of the Oklahoma Air National Guard. Its parent unit is the United States Air Force's 138th Fighter Wing (138 FW) is a fighter unit located at Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
89-2007 General Dynamics F-16C Block 42E Fighting Falcon C/n 1C-160
Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229E.
Started life in 1984 as 82-1022 with the USAF before going into storage in 1994. Taken out of storage and refurbished as part of the Peace Atlantis II programme for the Portuguese Air Force in which it flew until October 2016 as 15130 before going to the Romanian Air Force, as part of the Peace Carpathian I programme, in 2017.
PictionID:44932147 - Catalog:14_015811 - Title:Dyess AFB Details: Site 578; Complex 2 Chart; Baird - Filename:14_015811.tif - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
General Dynamics F-16N "Fighting Falcon" BuNo.163275 (NJ-601)
VF-126 "Bandits" - Fighter Squadron 126
History:
85-1376 General Dynamics F-16N Block 30C Fighting Falcon.
MSN 3M-5/10. Transferred to US Navy as BuNo.163275
1995 - To AMARC as as 1F0011
1998 - Reallocated to FG0437.
Still on AMARC inventory Jan 15, 2008
PictionID:43057453 - Catalog:14_003934 - Title:MA-9 Details: Decal on MA-9 Booster; signed by Gordon Cooper and Alan Sheppard 03/19/1963 - Filename:14_003934.TIF - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
A few pages I scanned out of this pamphlet. It would be interesting to hear from someone who actually flew the F-111 in England, (E or F model). I would like to know more about lofting, or bomb tossing also. Comments Welcome!
A visit to Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona is a must for all aircraft enthusiasts as this is the home of AMARC (Aircraft Maintenance And Regeneration Center). The aircraft re-cycling division of the USA forces. The great aircraft boneyard in the Arizona desert holds around 4400 airframes with a book value of $23.6BN . Large numbers of KC-135, Lockheed Orion, C-130 Hercules and F-16 Fighting Falcons are currently stored here (2020); but there are plenty of more interesting aircraft too. In some cases, like the Delta Dart and Canberra, just one example is in store. There is currently a major programme to convert redundant F16C Fighting Falcons into Drone aircraft. Boeing has a contract to convert several hundred at a cost of $21M each - only for them to be shot down by modern weapons packages as part of F22 Lightning II training for pilots.
(slidescan) Still with the old badge of 313 Squadron KLu, F-16A J-366 is taxiing out for take-off at Twenthe airbase. © Bert Visser
88486634 :Piction ID--Tomahawk missile being transported near Boeing B-52---Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---- Digitization of this image made possible by a grant from NEH: NEH and the San Diego Air and Space Museum
General Dynamics F-16N "Fighting Falcon" BuNo.163275 (NJ-601)
VF-126 "Bandits" - Fighter Squadron 126
History:
85-1376 General Dynamics F-16N Block 30C Fighting Falcon.
MSN 3M-5/10. Transferred to US Navy as BuNo.163275
1995 - To AMARC as as 1F0011
1998 - Reallocated to FG0437.
Still on AMARC inventory Jan 15, 2008
FA-123 Belgian Air Force General DynamIcs (SABCA) F-16AM
Fighting Falcon "Solo Display" Tom "Gizmo" DeMoortel
PictionID:43051870 - Catalog:14_003994 - Title:Atlas 100D-Mercury Details: Mating and Erection of Atlas 100D with MA-3; Pad 14 03/27/1961 - Filename:14_003994.TIF - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Washington Post
December 2, 1963
Full Page Ad - A13
September 27, 1963 2:03 P.M.
Centaur rides atop Atlas, shortly after launch from Cape Kennedy. Atlas boosted the joined vehicles to the edge of the atmosphere, where they separated. Then Centaur's own engines started up for flight in space. On this flight, the Centaur achieved an earth-orbit which will endure for approximately 200 years.
"Right on Course and burning fine"
Centaur opens a new era of space flight
The successful flight of NASA's Centaur last week marked a major milestone in the mastery of an entirely new technology-the use of liquid hydrogen as a rocket fuel.
Centaur is the first U.S. space vehicle to use the high energy of liquid hydrogen to operate a vehicle in space-and represents a significant forward step in the knowledge and techniques that will be applied to future space vehicles.
This was the second of eight research and development flights scheduled for Centaur. Over the next two years it will be refined into a versatile new-generation space vehicle, ready to begin operational assignments in 1965.
Centaur is built by the Astronautics division of General Dynamics under the direction of the Lewis Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
GENERAL DYNAMICS
PictionID:43058014 - Catalog:14_003979 - Title:Atlas 130D-Mercury Details: Mating of Spacecraft #20 ; (left to right) Gunter Wendt-Engineer talking with Alan Shepard- MA-9 Backup Pilot; other unidentified 04/22/1963 - Filename:14_003979.TIF - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum