F-16 Falcon USAF ThunderbirdsF 16 Thunderbird airplane model. In an air combat role, the F 16's maneuverability and combat radius (distance it can fly to enter air combat, stay, fight and return) exceed that of all potential threat fighter aircraft. It can locate targets in all weather conditions and detect low flying aircraft in radar ground clutter. In an air to surface role, the F 16 can fly more than 500 miles (860 kilometers), deliver its weapons with superior accuracy,

The 800 was also the first corporate jet to feature an EFIS cockpit and is now available with the Collins Pro Line 21 avionics suite

105 sent under lend-lease

but in June 1948 the second YB-49 was destroyed with the loss of its five man crew in a crash attributed to structural failure

It is a piston-engine general fighter introduced in July 1941 and served as a fighter-bomber and night fighter

Designed to an official requirement for a dive-bomber

Take a voyage in style with the VC-137 Air Force One

this ensures that the wheels cannot be retracted accidentally on the ground or a landing made with the wheels up

a dining salon that could be transformed into a lounge

The C-17 is the newest airlifter aircraft to enter the Air Force's inventory

and on November 19

Navy requested a swept-wing F9F design from Grumman

yet the remarkable C-130 remains in production