S1 • E6 Jan 14, 2009 45m
In the 1970’s, the U.S. Air Force faced a problem: it had developed what is arguably the greatest fighter plane in the world, the twin-engine F-15, but the aircraft was too costly to produce in volume, and America’s allies couldn’t afford to buy many of them for their own arsenals. Out of this need came the powerful but economical single-engine F-16 Falcon.
