Lockheed F-16 Fighting Falcon (93-0549)

Nice to see the type of ARW plane my son works on in action

Echoing a comment below. Would the Wright brothers ever have envisioned this type of capability? Perhaps but they'd still have been thunderstruck IMHO! Great photo.

Fill 'er up!!

Excellent!!

Great Shot......

I was too young to remember but my home city of Cincinnati would be treated to the sonic booms from Bunker Hill AFB (now Grissom) Convair B-58s. This was like summer of 1963-1964 roughly. The newspapers would publish the approximate times so the population wouldn't freak out.

"I believe that the money spent on that was not utilized in the best possible way. Perhaps, there are other ways that could have provided more value for the investment."

Looks like mama plan and baby plane!

This reminds me of 9-11 when the Air Force was running race tracks over NYC for weeks. You would look up and see the tanker at at least 30,000 feet and the little speck of a fighter would pull up for fuel.
Scary times

Similar situation when the President visits NYC, his Delaware home, and places he visits. I've seen 3 escorts with a tanker over NYC when the UN was having a big shindig last year. Tough one to spot and photograph at the same time. This shot a big 10 vote. Oh, I forgot members are still using the same outdated scale 0-5.

This is from the flyover at Fenway Park for the Red Sox opening day! It flew over my house!

A buddy of mine from years ago was a KC-135 boom operator. He said he had the best job in the world. . . he got paid to lay on his belly and pass gas!