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PictionID:44932601 - Catalog:14_015848 - Title:Sycamore Canyon Facilities - Filename:14_015848.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
Festa al Cel 2017. Aeropuerto de Lleida-Alguaire. IATA: ILD
OACI: LEDA
General Dynamics (SABCA) F-16AM Fighting Falcon
Length: 14.8 m
Wingspan: 9.8 m
Height: 4.8 m
Empty weight: 8,270 kg
Loaded weight: 12,000 kg
Max takeoff weight: 19,200 kg
Maximum speed: At sea level: Mach 1.2 (915 mph, 1,460 km/h)
At altitude: Mach 2+ (1,500 mph, 2,414 km/h)
Combat radius: 340 NM (295 mi, 550 km) on a hi-lo-hi mission with six 1,000 lb (450 kg) bombs
Ferry range: 2,440 NM (3,900 km)
Service ceiling: 48,000 ft (15,239 m)
Powerplant: 1× Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-220 afterburning turbofan
Dry thrust: 14,590 lb (64.9 kN)
Thrust with afterburner: 23,770 lb (105.7 kN)
General Dynamics F-16AM cn6H-84 msn80-3575
Force Aérienne Belge
Base Aérienne Salon de Provence (60 ans de la PAF)
26/05/2013
PictionID:54637395 - Catalog:14_035186 - Title:GD/Astronautics Testing Details: Cryogenic Connector Assembly; Test Set Up Date: 03/29/1965 - Filename:14_035186.tif - - ---- Images 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
Hill Aerospace Museum
Cover Assy. Probe
Angle of Attack
and Side Slip
Goodman Ball, Inc
History of the F-111E "Aardvark"
The F-111E was a long-range, all-weather strike aircraft, first manufactured in 1967. They were used during the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm bombing raids, and in the Gulf War for strategic bombing, ground attack, and electronic warfare missions. These aircraft were credited with destroying roughly 1,500 tanks and armored vehicles.
The F-111E "Aardvark" at Hill Air Force Base
In 1965, the Ogden Air Materiel Area was assigned the specialized repair of the F-111A aircraft equipment-including struts, wheels, and brakes. Over the years, Hill Air Force Base also maintained, supported, and oversaw several F-111 aircrew training systems and simulators. The F-111E on display was manufactured in 1969, and it served on several bases within the United States and at the Royal Air Force Base in Upper Heyford, England, in 1971. In 1994, this aircraft moved to the Hill Aerospace Museum for display.
Interesting Fact
The F-111E set a record for the longest low-level supersonic flight (172 miles at less than 1,000 feet altitude) on November 9th, 1966. It was also the first tactical aircraft to cross the Atlantic from the United States to Europe without refueling in May 1967.
Specifications
S/N 68-0020
Manufacturer: General Dynamics
Crew: Two
Engines: Two Pratt & Whitney TF30-P3 turbofans: 18,500 lbs. thrust each in afterburner
Wingspan: 63 ft (extended); 31 ft 11 ½ in (swept)
Length: 73 ft 5½ in
Height: 17 ft 6 in
Weight: 46,172 pounds (empty): 98,850 pounds (maximum)
Speed: 1,453 mph, Mach 2.5 (maximum): 470 mph (cruising)
Range: maximum: 3,165 miles (with external fuel tanks)
Service Ceiling: 61,000 ft
Armament: One 20mm M61A1 Vulcan rotary cannon with 2,000 rounds of ammunition; up to 30,000 pounds of conventional or nuclear ordnance (internal and external)
88481715 :Piction ID--Air-launched cruise missile assembly---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 General Dynamics F-111E at Duxford
In 1961, the F-111 was intended to be a fighter to equip both the US Air Force and Navy. After years of political and technical controversy, an aircraft emerged in 1967, which the Navy would not accept, and which the Air Force has never used as a fighter. However, it is probably the best low-level strike aircraft ever built. The F-111 was the first aircraft in the world with variable geometry, or "swing-wings". Variable geometry enables the aircraft to take off and land with straight wings, which permit low speed flight, but to fly at high supersonic speeds with swept wings.
Another first for the F-111 was its automatic terrain-following radar. This, combined with its low-level supersonic capability, long range and ability to deliver precision-guided weapons, made it ideal for the strike role. Typically, in Vietnam in 1972-3, a single aircraft would penetrate enemy airspace at treetop level to avoid radar detection. The aircraft would then climb rapidly to bomb anti-aircraft gun or missile batteries before the B-52s came through to bomb strategic targets. Unique to the F-111 is the crew escape module - the whole cockpit section ejects in a crash. When production ceased in 1976, 562 F-111s had been built.
The F-111 on display, 67-120, retains the 55th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Wing markings, it carried when based at RAF Upper Heyford, UK. It flew 19 Desert Storm missions and flew into Duxford on 19 October 1993.
PictionID:43057853 - Catalog:14_003966 - Title:Atlas 100D-Mercury Details: MA-3; Atlas 100D; Prelaunch; Pad 14 04/25/1961 - Filename:14_003966.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:43058051 - Catalog:14_003983 - Title:Atlas 93D-Mercury Details: Arrival of MA-5 at Pad 14 10/12/1961 - Filename:14_003983.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:43057916 - Catalog:14_003971 - Title:Atlas 93D- Mercury Details: Arrival of MA-5; Atlas 93D on Skid Strip 10/08/1961 - Filename:14_003971.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
Seen at the NATO Tiger Meet at Cambrai-Epinoy on 12 may 2011 was this (as usual) beautifully painted F-16AM FA-87 of 31 Squadron Belgian Air Force. © Bert Visser
General Dynamics F-16C "Fighting Falcon" 86-0299 (WA-99)
64th Aggressor Squadron (64 AGRS), Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
86-0299 General Dynamics F-16C Block 32D Fighting Falcon
MSN 5C-405.
Repainted in digitized ‘Ghost’ livery (blue and grey) by 567th AMXS at Hill AFB, Utah and returned to 64th AGRS at Nellis AFB, Nevada 3rd June 2020.
86-0299
WA-99
F-16C-32-CF
5C-405
64th AGRS
Active
Aug 2007
Feb 2021
digital ghost c/s
Royal Danish Air Force
General Dynamics F-16AM Fighting Falcon, E-599
Tampere-Pirkkala (EFTP), Finland
31.8.2016, air exercise "Beach 2016"
88089290 :Piction ID--Cruise missile systems integration master schedule---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
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
(slidescan) Going around at Twenthe airbase on 5 december 1990 is F-16B J-264 of 323 Sqn from Leeuwarden airbase. © Bert Visser
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
'87 222'/(87-0222) cn 5C-483 -
General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon -
USAF 'AL' 187th FW/100th FS AL ANG -
'City of Birmingham' -
Savannah/Hilton Head IAP,
12-Apr-2019 Georgia, United States, USA.