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PictionID:43051846 - Catalog:14_003992 - Title:Atlas 107D-Mercury Details: MA-7 Launch; Mercury Manned- Scott Carpenter 05/24/1962 - Filename:14_003992.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-16D "Fighting Falcon" 85-1572 (ED)
416th Flight Test Squadron, Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Pass through Star Wars Canyon, Red Flag 19-1
Video of pass: www.flickr.com/photos/yesiwood/40129027363/
History:
Aircraft: 85-1572
LM Aero T/V: 5D-41
Plant: General Dynamics
Local C/N
Delivered USAF 85572
Current USAF 85572
Status; Active
Mar 1987 - 85572 F-16D Block 30B
Apr 1987 - USAF 480 TFS 'SP'
Jun 1991 - USAF 149 FS 'VA'
Jul 1995 - Test bed for the Recce pod.
Jan 2001 - USAF 149 FS 'VA'
Collided with F-16C (86-0228) Cost to repair was $1.2 million, 26000 work hours and over a 2-year period.
Mar 2004 - Delivered to 149th FS
Jun 2007 - USAF 416 FLTS 'ED'
General Dynamics F-16D "Fighting Falcon" 85-1572 (ED)
416th Flight Test Squadron, Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Pass through Star Wars Canyon, Red Flag 19-1
Video of pass: www.flickr.com/photos/yesiwood/40129027363/
History:
Aircraft: 85-1572
LM Aero T/V: 5D-41
Plant: General Dynamics
Local C/N
Delivered USAF 85572
Current USAF 85572
Status; Active
Mar 1987 - 85572 F-16D Block 30B
Apr 1987 - USAF 480 TFS 'SP'
Jun 1991 - USAF 149 FS 'VA'
Jul 1995 - Test bed for the Recce pod.
Jan 2001 - USAF 149 FS 'VA'
Collided with F-16C (86-0228) Cost to repair was $1.2 million, 26000 work hours and over a 2-year period.
Mar 2004 - Delivered to 149th FS
Jun 2007 - USAF 416 FLTS 'ED'
PictionID:43051822 - Catalog:14_003990 - Title:Atlas 107D-Mercury Details: MA-7 Launch; Mercury Manned- Scott Carpenter 05/24/1962 - Filename:14_003990.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
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)
PictionID:43051784 - Catalog:14_003986 - Title:Atlas Centaur Details: Tranport, Erection and Mating of Centaur Stage 6A from Hangar H to Atlas Booster 116D; Pad 36 04/23/1963 - Filename:14_003986.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-Dynamic F-16A Block20 MLU 15105 93-04569 Força-Aéra-Portuguesa Esquadra-301 Jaguarés
50years NATO NTM2019
1616 cn 61-633 -
General Dynamics F-16AM Fighting Falcon -
RomAF 86 AB/Esc.53 -
Royal Intl. Air Tattoo RIAT '24 (Arr Day 2) -
RAF Fairford,
18-Jul-2017 Gloucestershire, England, GBR.
The United States Air Force's 138th Fighter Wing (138 FW) is a fighter unit located at Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma. An Air National Guard (ANG) unit operationally-gained by the Air Combat Command (ACC), the wing flies the F-16 Fighting Falcon multirole fighter.
The 138th FW is also the host unit for the Defense Air Sovereignty Alert mission located at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas.
89-2073 General Dynamics F-16C Block 42F Fighting Falcon C/n 1C-226
Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-200 thrust of 30,000 lbs.
What would become arguably the most successful fighter aircraft since World War II started modestly, and like many late 20th-Century fighter designs, as a result of lessons learned in the Vietnam War. Among those lessons was that large, heavy fighters were not always the answer: the F-4 Phantom II, while a superlative aircraft, had often found itself outclassed by smaller, more nimble North Vietnamese MiG-17s and MiG-21s. The call for the US Air Force to develop its own lightweight fighter was spearheaded by fighter pilot and air combat theorist John Boyd. At first, Boyd’s proposals were dismissed by the USAF, who feared losing funding for the F-15 Eagle then in development. Boyd and others were able to convince the USAF of the usefulness of a light, cheap fighter as a complement to the heavy, expensive F-15, and finally the USAF agreed to issue a requirement for a Lightweight Fighter (LWF)—though with no guarantee that it would actually buy it.
Both General Dynamics and Northrop responded with designs, which would become the YF-16 and YF-17 Cobra. The first YF-16 was rolled out in December 1973, and first flew in January of the next year—accidentally, as the prototype veered off the runway and the test pilot felt it safer to takeoff rather than try to steer it back. The YF-16 won the flyoff against the YF-17, and the USAF selected it to go into service as the F-16 Fighting Falcon. Simultaneously, the YF-16 won a flyoff for the Multinational Fighter; the MNF was planned to be the successor to a number of aircraft in NATO service, and the competition between the YF-16, YF-17, France’s Mirage F.1M, and the SEPECAT Jaguar was fierce. Once selected, production of the F-16 would be vastly expanded, with it not only being produced in the United States, but also in the Netherlands and Belgium as well (to be followed later by Turkey and South Korea). In a short time, the F-16 had come a long way.
Production F-16s differed from the prototype by being slightly larger and heavier, though the initial production batch retained the “small tail” tailplanes of the prototype. Though heftier than the prototype, the F-16 retained the basis of Boyd’s ideal lightweight fighter: it was extremely maneuverable, to the point that a number of early F-16s crashed as the aircraft could take more than the pilot. Its maneuverability is due both to a favorable thrust-weight ratio and its deliberately unstable design: the F-16 was one of the first fighters to employ a wholly-fly-by-wire control system, with the hydraulic controls of older fighters being replaced by microprocessors controlled by a central computer. The microprocessors are able to make the dozens of decisions per second required by the design. For this reason, the F-16 is also known as the “Electric Jet.” General Dynamics had attempted to mitigate these effects on the pilot by reclining the ejection seat backwards and moving the control stick to the side. The pilot also has superb visibility due to the F-16’s bubble canopy.
The Fighting Falcon’s baptism of fire would not take long. Israel, which had been among the first to purchase the F-16, scored the type’s first air-to-air kill over Lebanon in 1981, as well as its first significant strike mission, the raid on Iraq’s Osirak reactor. In the following year, Israeli F-16s scored possibly as many as 30 victories over Syrian MiGs during the 1982 Lebanon War. Pakistani F-16s were to see limited action during the Soviet-Afghan War, shooting down 10 Afghani and Soviet aircraft that strayed into Pakistan’s airspace. For the United States, the F-16 would see its first action in the First Gulf War, though here the USAF used the Falcon’s large payload in strike missions; USAF F-16s saw no aerial action during this conflict.
By the early 1990s, the USAF relegated its F-16A models to the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, reequipping its units with later mark F-16Cs. Many of the ANG’s F-16As were upgraded to ADF standard. The last USAF F-16A left service around 2000; aircraft not placed in storage at AMARC in Arizona have been sold to other nations, while some are scheduled for conversion to QF-16 drones.
F-16As are among the most prolific fighters in the world, in service worldwide, flown by ten nations, three of which are in NATO. These aircraft (save those flown by Venezuela) have been significantly upgraded to F-16 MLU (Mid-Life Upgrade) standard, making them equivalent to F-16Cs. Besides Israeli and Pakistani kills in the type, a Dutch F-16AM shot down a Serbian MiG-29 during the Kosovo War in 1999. Other NATO F-16AMs have seen service over Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. These older models of F-16s will remain in service until probably 2020 at least, to be replaced by the F-35A Lightning II.
This F-16B is 78-0077, the first production B-model F-16, delivered to the USAF's 6510th Test Wing at Edwards AFB, California in 1978. Once testing was completed, it was transferred to the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Hill AFB, Utah in 1979, and then to the 56th TFW at MacDill AFB, Florida in 1982, acting as a conversion trainer for frontline F-16 units; it would remain with the 56th when 78-0077 moved to Luke AFB, Arizona in 1983. With the active-duty USAF transitioning to the F-16C/D, 78-0077 was transferred to the 169th TFW (South Carolina ANG) at McEntire ANGB in 1990. In 1994, it was retired, and in 2017 was donated to the Pima Air and Space Museum. It was restored and placed on display in 2023.
I photographed 78-0077 back in 2021, when I got to go back and look around Pima's restoration yard, and it went on display the day after my visit in 2023 (talk about bad timing). It looks much better in 2024 than it did three years ago, back in the colors of the 169th TFW.
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.
General Dynamics F-16D "Fighting Falcon" 85-1572 (ED)
416th Flight Test Squadron, Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Pass through Star Wars Canyon, Red Flag 19-1
Video of pass: www.flickr.com/photos/yesiwood/40129027363/
History:
Aircraft: 85-1572
LM Aero T/V: 5D-41
Plant: General Dynamics
Local C/N
Delivered USAF 85572
Current USAF 85572
Status; Active
Mar 1987 - 85572 F-16D Block 30B
Apr 1987 - USAF 480 TFS 'SP'
Jun 1991 - USAF 149 FS 'VA'
Jul 1995 - Test bed for the Recce pod.
Jan 2001 - USAF 149 FS 'VA'
Collided with F-16C (86-0228) Cost to repair was $1.2 million, 26000 work hours and over a 2-year period.
Mar 2004 - Delivered to 149th FS
Jun 2007 - USAF 416 FLTS 'ED'
87370596 :Piction ID--Convair Model 48 Charger in flight---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
87372484 :Piction ID--Convair Model 48 Charger in flight---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
United States Air Force General Dynamics F-16 "Fighting Falcon" from Spangdahlem Airbase participates in exercise "Formidable Shield" May 2019
PictionID:43051598 - Catalog:14_003996 - Title:Atlas 109D-Mercury Details: MA-6 Alert (Gantry); Atlas 109D 02/20/1962 - Filename:14_003996.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 FB-111A "Aardvark" 67-0159
History:
67-0159 (MSN B1-01)
Converted to F-111G.
1980: To SM-ALC (Sacramento Air Logistics Center).
Used as an Engineering Flight Test Aircraft by the 2874th Test Squadron until 1987
1984: Received the orange and white paint scheme for conspicuity during testing
1987: Grounded, it was used in support of the N-Ray facility and used as the prototype for F-111 bead blast and polyurethane paint
This aircraft was used to test:
1. New operational flight programs
2. Prototypes of new systems
3. New wing seals
4. Terrain following radar (TFR) humidity testing in support of the SM-ALC Blue Ribbon Panel 1n 1984
5. Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) attack radar test in 1985 and 1986
6. First Air Force Weapon System to flight test a polyamide composite - installed in the left hand translating cowl in July 1969
7. Used as photo and safety chase until grounded in 1987
Retired to McClellan AFB CA Museum.
Unusually fitted with Triple Plow I intakes instead of TP II.
Now on display at Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan, California.
General-Dynamic F-16A Block20 MLU 15105 93-04569 Força-Aéra-Portuguesa Esquadra-301 Jaguarés
50years NATO NTM2019
PictionID:43057702 - Catalog:14_003954 - Title:Atlas 100D-Mercury Details: Liftoff of MA-3 Carrying Caps #8; Pad 14; Unmanned 04/25/1961 - Filename:14_003954.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 FB-111A "Aardvark" 67-0159
History:
67-0159 (MSN B1-01)
Converted to F-111G.
1980: To SM-ALC (Sacramento Air Logistics Center).
Used as an Engineering Flight Test Aircraft by the 2874th Test Squadron until 1987
1984: Received the orange and white paint scheme for conspicuity during testing
1987: Grounded, it was used in support of the N-Ray facility and used as the prototype for F-111 bead blast and polyurethane paint
This aircraft was used to test:
1. New operational flight programs
2. Prototypes of new systems
3. New wing seals
4. Terrain following radar (TFR) humidity testing in support of the SM-ALC Blue Ribbon Panel 1n 1984
5. Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) attack radar test in 1985 and 1986
6. First Air Force Weapon System to flight test a polyamide composite - installed in the left hand translating cowl in July 1969
7. Used as photo and safety chase until grounded in 1987
Retired to McClellan AFB CA Museum.
Unusually fitted with Triple Plow I intakes instead of TP II.
Now on display at Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan, California.
PictionID:43057865 - Catalog:14_003967 - Title:Atlas 100D-Mercury Details: Mating and Erection of MA-3; Atlas 100D; Pad 14 03/27/1961 - Filename:14_003967.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:43051834 - Catalog:14_003991 - Title:Atlas 107D-Mercury Details: MA-7 Launch; Mercury Manned- Scott Carpenter 05/24/1962 - Filename:14_003991.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-16CM Fighting Falcon 16th Weapons Squadron Group. AF-90 0746
Red Flag 20-1 Nellis AFB
General Dynamics F-16C "Fighting Falcon" 85-1418 (WA-18)
64th Aggressor Squadron (64 AGRS), Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
Red Flag 19-2 Nellis AFB Nevada.
Serial - 85-1418
Code - WA 18
Type - F-16C-25-CF
CN - 5C-198
Unit - 64th AGRS
Status - Active
First - oct11
Last - feb17
Comment - splinter c/s '57th ATG' feb17-oct16
PreviousID
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.
General Dynamics F-16C Block 25C "Fighting Falcon" 84-1220 (WA-20)
64th Aggressor Squadron (64 AGRS), Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
1220 (MSN 5C-57)
2005: Active in May with 134th Fighter Squadron/158th Fighter Wng Vermont ANG at Burlington.
2019: Active at Nellis AFB, Nevada with 57th Adversary Tactics Group .
84-1220
WA 20
F-16C-25-CF
5C-57
64th AGRS
Active
Oct 2011
May 2022
Ghost c/s - '57 WG'
88086960 :Piction ID--Tomahawk missile potential applications---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
87370600 :Piction ID--Convair Model 48 Charger in flight---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:43057714 - Catalog:14_003955 - Title:Atlas 100D-Mercury Details: MA-3; Atlas 100D; Flight Test Report; Pad 14 04/25/1961 - Filename:14_003955.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
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, celebrating their 50th year at RIAT in July 2017.
In the foreground is a Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16.
87370639 :Piction ID--Convair Model 48 Charger in flight---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-Dynamic F-16A Block20 MLU 15105 93-04569 Força-Aéra-Portuguesa Esquadra-301 Jaguarés
50years NATO NTM2019
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.
89-2037 General Dynamics F-16C Block 42E Fighting Falcon C/n 1C-190
Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229E.
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)