NASA planning to put F-16XL back into the skies. Kind of old news but thought it ineresting.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... e-air.html
F-16XL
-
- Posts: 29
- Joined: Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:06 pm
- Location: Edmonton Alberta Canada
- Burner
- Virtual Thunderbird Alumnus
- Posts: 1420
- Joined: Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:08 pm
- Location: New Orleans, LA
Yeah its a neat aircraft, but I wouldn't want to be the first to test fly it unless the Block 40 retrofit was more of a rebuild. I have to assume it has a one-off FCC circa 1982 for the delta wing control, and just slapping a B40 engine in and warming up the avionics during a few taxies would have me triple checking my egress equipment.