A comprehensive case study covering all aspects of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:F-16XL" title="Category:F-16XL">F-16XL</a> saga from its early conceptual design—including wind tunnel and ground testing, computer simulations, and program advocacy—through construction of the two prototypes and their use in both the Air Force flight demonstration effort and NASA aeronautical research. As much a NASA story as it is an Air Force and General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin story, the F-16XL is one of the most elegant American fighters ever built.
Albert C. Piccirillo
2014
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