No, it's a bomber; but take all the kit off and it looks pretty good.
Not as good as a Viper, of course.
But then all Viper displays don't look good:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/192468/f16_crash/
When the solo Thunderbird pulled-through (Split-S) from below his gate
height.
This is such a good video that we show our students as a lesson in
flight safety.
Chris
On 21 Dec 2008, at 16:16, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>
> A fully loaded Tornado is obviously not a good "air-show" plane.
>
> I remember when the F16 was being showed for the first time at the
> Paris Air
> Show. The routine they had that first year was unbelievable!
> Halfway down
> the runway on the takeoff roll, it went straight up then did an
> imitation
> hammerhead (obviously it wasn't) and came screaming straight back
> down at
> the runway where at the last second it pulled back out to horizontal
> and
> continued down the runway at about 100 foot. It was a routine that
> stopped
> everybody in their tracks--NOBODY had seen anything like it before.
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