#f-16 fighting falcon

The first female F-16 Fighting Falcon Pilot, Second Lieutenant (2LT) Kristin L Bass, USAF, gets strapped into her F-16C Fighting Falcon by crew chief Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Kevin J. Jones, 4/4/2002

Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008

Image description: Second Lieutenant Bass sits in her fighter jet with the canopy open and her helmet perched on the side of the aircraft. Technical Sergeant Jones is leaning in to connect a buckle behind Bass’s shoulder.

Nightscape….

          [WARNING: This is not a video game.]

OVER THE MIDDLE EAST (November 1, 2020) – A United States Air ForceF-16 Fighting Falcon makes its approach for an aerial refueling from a KC-135 Stratotanker somewhere over the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility.

Looks very much like something out of a high-end video game!

Note the highway interchange just below the fighter jet….not to mention the vast areas of neatly-designed towns, sports facilities and industrial complexes across the nightscape.

Some great planning, expertise and effort here to “program” it all….as if in more ways than one!

United States Central Command area of responsibility is shown in color.

                                             F-16 Fighting Falcon

          A KC-135 Stratotanker refuels an F-16 Fighting Falcon

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>>Top photo: Master Sgt. Joseph Swafford, USAF

F-16 Falcon pre-flight inspection prior to Alaska training mission

The United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron “Thunderbirds” execute a practice demonstration over Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, Houston, Texas, Oct. 18, 2019, in preparation for the Wings Over Houston airshow.