Flying the F-16

The F-16 is still being built, I believe, in one of the Carolinas. There's a nice connection there back to John Boyd, right? And that connection belongs, really works with the YF-17, which is featured in the new movie Maverick Top Gun and the F-18. So you have this low-cost, lightweight fighter known as the F-16, gets selected way back when. You mentioned the production line in South Carolina. They just rolled off the Block 70 Lockheed Martin did. But it's continued to be sold and modified and adapted,. conform a wing tank, better electronic countermeasures, you know, on it.

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