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Viper Demo Team Secretly Painted Jet In YF-16 Scheme To Celebrate Type's 50th Anniversary
Even when we're in the shadows. The original YF-16. (Lockheed Martin) The next step was trying to find a place to paint the airplane, which is more involved than people might think. My first call ...
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F-16 Sortie Tests Writer’s Mettle On Supersonic Training Mission
To celebrate the plane’s 50-year anniversary, the U.S. Air Force decorated one with the same YF-16 colors that were painted on the first one. That aircraft, which resides at Shaw AFB in South ...
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America’s YF-17 Cobra: The Greatest Warplane You’ve Never Heard Of
Northrop’s YF-17 was placed into a head-to-head competition with General Dynamics’ YF-16 under the Lightweight Fighter (LWF) Program. During the trials, the Air Force noted that the YF-17 ...
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The Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet Is Still Deadly After Nearly 50 Years
The U.S. Air Force passed over the YF-17 prototype to select the F-16 fighter jet. But the U.S. Navy made it the F/A-18 Hornet.