The F-16’s agility, cockpit ergonomics and incredible visibility helped make it the fighter to have for decades. As some “Viper” pilots will tell you, you don’t strap into the F-16: it straps onto you. You can see how amazing the view from the cockpit is and just how responsive the jet is in this awesome video via the Turkish F-16C solo demonstration team.
The Turkish solo F-16 display is known to put on a great show, but sometimes the most thrilling part of their appearances don’t happen during the air show itself. Case in point, this extremely low approach executed during the team’s arrival to RAF Waddington in 2014.
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