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US Air Force’s 127th ‘zombie’ F-16 robot jet now flies full-throttle

The final aircraft delivered carries the serial number 83-1079. It first entered Air Force service in 1984 as an F-16A and ...
Stars and Stripes

Texas base set to get Air Force’s new pilot training aircraft, begin first steps to flying it locally

The 99th Flying Training Squadron will soon begin integrating the T-7A Red Hawk as the primary trainer for Air Force pilots.

Air Force F-16 pilot awarded Silver Star for actions in the Middle East

Lt. Col. William “Skate” Park led a squadron of Air Force F-16s in the Middle East, and defended the USS Harry S. Truman from ...
AeroTime

US Air Force enters new fighter training era with T-7A Red Hawk arrival: video

The USAF has welcomed the arrival of its first Boeing-Saab T-7A Red Hawk, marking the “beginning of a new era for developing ...
Air Force Times on MSN

The pajama pilot over Pearl Harbor

Philip M. Rasmussen was one of the few American pilots to get into the air in the skies on Dec. 7, 1941. He was still in his ...

A US F-16 pilot outflew enemy missiles with extreme high-G turns for 15 minutes during a Middle East mission

An Air Force citation obtained by Business Insider describes how the pilot survived a harrowing mission in enemy airspace.
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The Air Force Pilot Who Died Chasing a “Metallic Object of Tremendous Size”

It began as a routine investigation of an unidentified object… and ended in one of the most controversial aviation deaths in history. While other pilots abandoned the chase due to dangerously thin air ...
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‘High-G maneuvers’ amid enemy missiles earn USAF pilot Silver Star

An Air Force squadron commander who led a history-making deployment to the Middle East was presented with the military’s ...