10.000ft above Belgium the howling sound of the Lockheed Martin’s F-16AM Fighting Falcon F100 jet engine could clearly be heard. No wonder, as the Demo Pilot for the Belgian Air Force, Sr. Cpt Darte, callsign ...
A historic first! August 2020 saw the visit of Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-16C/D “Barak” fighter jets deploying to Germany. With security on high alert and very restricted access to Nörvenich air base, ...
... It’s a platform well adapted to preparing future pilots for different versions of the F-16, F-15 and the most recent F-35 Adir ("the Mighty").
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... here against the aggressor unit of the 115th season "The Flying Dragons", which has recently updated its jets from the F-16A "Netz" to the F-16C "Barak" (Lightning).
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The only ‘real’ military flying display on the FIA18 trade days was the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) F-16 Demo Team, flying a Spangdahlem-based USAFE Fighting Falcon in the usual gray sky of Farnboro ...
... display. And their pilots and crew were a real enrichment and attraction also on ground.
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Other jet displays included F-16s from Belgium, ...
... with a long telephoto lens. Actually this fear turned out to be partly true, as was the prevailing typhoon season. But the announced airshow at Hualien airbase with its F-16 fighter Squadrons and the reconnaissance ...
... a blue sky!
Obviously the USAF F-16 "Viper" solo display could not really compete with the show of the "Blues", but it did put a nice display in the humid sky of Houston and the Heritage Flight in formati ...
... Air Force (RoAF) F-16s. The flying then continued with only a short 30 minutes break in the afternoon until after sunset with many more highlights.
Where? Bucharest, Baneasa Airport, Romania When? ...
... announcement has been made: Slovakia is about to purchase 14 Lockheed Martin F-16C Block 70/72 "Fighting Falcon" aircraft. Delivery is scheduled to start in 2022, when the American jets will begin to replac ...
... capabilities of this indigenous (and F-16 lookalike) fighter jet.
First was a formation of three jets of each of these two Squadrons, that first presented a nice fly-by as a six-ship formation. It was ...
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The Wings over Houston airshow was opened by two F-16s of the138th Fighter ...
... Thunderbirds or the U.S. Army Golden Knights. In addition to the aerial acts there was a variety of static displays. This included the U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer, F-16 Fighting Falcon, T-38 Talon, V-22 ...
... 1000 operational sorties were flown during day and night!
Where? Andravida, Greece When? 20/03/2018
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Tsuiki Airbase on the Southern Japanese island of Kyushu hosts nowadays two Squadrons of the Mitsubishi F-2 jet. 6 Hikotai and 8 Hikotai are half of the JASDF Squadrons operating the indigenous, F-16-look-alike ...
The EAA Airventure 2017 was announced to be the bomber year! And it really became bombastic. 590.000 people attended the event in Oshkosh, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid and also ...
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Oshkosh 2016 featured also quite a number of military jets in the air and on the ground. The USAF Heritage Flight brought the combo of an F-16 Fighting Falcon and P-51 Mustang to the EAA Airventure, ...
... s a former German MiG-29GT) or two US 104FW F-15C Eagles, which are currently on deployment in Europe. The Belgian F-16AM of the 31 Tiger Squadron was of course their Tiger jet and a Luftwaffe A400M used ...
... Belgium with the F-16 Solo Display (www.f-16demo.be) and the Czech Air Force Saab Gripen.
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SIAF 2016 Static Display at Sliac
SIAF 2016 was a colorful ...
... ch Rafale, Belgium F-16 Fighting Falcon, Polish MiG-29 Fulcrum and the Italian C-27J Spartan. As a surprise Airbus presented their A400M Atlas military transport aircraft with some fly-bys and a touch&go on ...