An Air Force Thunderbird F-16 crashed in 2025 when its engine blew up, as did a training jet in New Mexico in 2024. Investigators traced both mishaps to a "blind spot" inside the engine.

The December crash of one of the famed demonstration team's jets was the second time in less than two years that an F-16 pilot was forced to eject after a failure in an engine's mechanical "blind ...

The Air Force is changing how F-16 crews inspect a “blind spot” in the plane’s engine that has been at the root of at least two accidents in the last two years, including one that destroyed an Air ...

Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a new documentary video about the US General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon and its maintenance + engine test.

The United States Air Force has long been the envy of the world — a technologically dominant force capable of projecting power to any corner of the globe within hours. But beneath the gleaming ...

The U.S. Air Force initiated the Fighter Squadron Reset to return F-16s to Kunsan Air Base after the Super Squadron ...