Give the perfect gift for your children with our F-16 Falcon Thunderbirds Hand Held Kids Collection.
Model Airplane: F-16 Falcon Thunderbirds aircraft
Wingspan: 5.25"
Fuselage Length: 7.6"
Handle: 6.0"
Branch: United States Air Force (USAF)
The F-16 Fighting Falcon is a dogfighter with innovations including a frameless, bubble canopy for better visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while under high g-forces, and reclined seat to reduce the effect of g-forces on the pilot. It was developed by General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin and its primary user is the United States Air Force.
The Thunderbirds are the Air Demonstration Squadron of the United States Air Force. As such, they tour the United States and much of the world, performing aerobatic formation and solo flying in specially-marked USAF jet aircraft. In 1982 the team switched to the F-16A Fighting Falcon; this transition had been under consideration before the "Diamond Crash" in January. The team sat out the 1982 airshow season and spent that year retraining and transiting over into the new aircraft to ready themselves for the 1983 season. The team continues to fly the F-16 today, having switched from the "A" to "C" version in 1992.
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