The No. 2 General Dynamics YF-16 lightweight fighter prototype, painted in sky blue and white camouflage, was featured on Aviation Week’s cover on April 1, 1974, a little more than a month before its ...

-The scheme honors the 1974 prototype with slight modifications, such as “20th Fighter Wing” replacing “General Dynamics.” -The team will celebrate the anniversary at 25 shows across four countries in ...

The F-16V Block 70/72 “Viper” is described as every bit a revolution in the world of fighter aircraft as the flight of the original YF-16 prototype more than half a century ago was. The aircraft’s ...

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Air & Space Forces Magazine reporter Erik Simonsen explained the driving factor behind the LWF in a December 2016 article: “When the Air Force F-15 and Navy F-14 were being developed in the early ...

A father of the design and development of the F-16 explains the unique philosophy and processes used to bring the most popular fighter of the post-Vietnam era from an idea to a finished product.

A remarkable anniversary in the history of Lockheed Martin’s F-16 programme will be marked on 20 January, exactly 50 years after a prototype of the lightweight fighter got airborne for the first time.