"John Galban" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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This put the Viper way low of
where it should have been at the top side commit. He missed his visual
cues
as well. The airplane simply didn't have the g available vs the altitude
under it to cut the corner.

Hey Dudley,

I've notice that in several posts over the last few months regarding
the T-Birds, you refer to the planes as Vipers. Is there something
different about these F-16s that they have a different name?

Just wondering,

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

Viper is the nickname that stuck for the F16 in the fighter community. Thank
God !!!!!!.....the girls weren't really all that impressed with "Lawn Dart"
:-))
And somehow, the name "Fighting Falcon" just never caught on either. It's
usually this way with our birds. The manufacturers' sales department has a
meeting one day and picks some terrible idiotic name that they think is in
character with the product......you know, the same way some people with dogs
like to name them. I can't remember the last time I ran into a two hundred
and ten pound Rotweiler named "Muffin" :-))))) It's usually something like
"Ripper! "
Then, when the airplane makes it out into the general fighter community, we
get a hold of it and rename it to suit ourselves. That's the name that
sticks. Hence the "Viper" tag!
Dudley