Welcome back to The Daily Aviation for a feature on the Viper, the US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon, and the incredible ...

Two Fulcrums (foreground) form up with F-16 aggressors in a 1999 Red Flag exercise ... 73 pilot—with the Archer missile-aiming sight mounted on his helmet—watches as a squadron mate prepares ...

Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag follows American F-15 Eagle pilot John Stratton as ... progression through the challenging and dangerous exercises of Operation Red Flag, the international ...

In that discussion, the F-15EX’s ability to provide air policing, carry a big magazine of weapons, and growth potential were discussed. Novotny is a former US Air Force General and F-15 pilot ... Air ...

Following the 2008 Red Flag exercise, US Air Force pilots anonymously posted assessment videos on YouTube. One officer, while praising how F-15 pilots ... Times quoted pilot as saying.

Air Force exercises are made to be realistic, and it even converts retired F ... Red Flag was first established in 1975 to prepare the military forces for combat. At the time, the US was fighting in ...

A USAF analysis known as Project Red Baron II showed that a pilot ... the F-16 Fighting Falcon as MiG-29, and the F-15 Eagle as the Russian Su-27/30 variants. Since the first time in November 1975, ...

FILE - A U.S. Air Force F-16 refuels in mid-flight from a KC-135 Stratotanker during a Red Flag exercise over The Nevada ... other ammunition — as Ukraine prepares for a much expected spring ...

The Department of Defense is conducting its bi-annual Checkered Flag air-to-air combat exercises at Tyndall Air Force Base. The training prepares ... as “red air.” “From a pilot’s ...

The base also hosts the world-renowned joint-service, international Red Flag and other air combat exercises ... of the Air Force Weapons School and F-35 pilot himself, Col. Mills has worked ...

15 Squadron RAF Regiment, based at RAF Marham, have just returned from Exercise Red Flag (Alaska). In the exercise scenario ... having to eject and what it will be like on the ground.” F-16 pilot ...