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Location DB > United States > Arizona > Tucson > AMARC > Drive-by photos > IMG_5967.JPG 5 / 7   IMG_5967.JPG Description Hundreds of Vipers Controls Return to Main Location Page Return to Gallery Overview Edit this Gallery Edit this Picture Subscribe this Picture Comments Posted by Jonsered 4/10/2007 9:21 PM | remove   WHen did the F-16 get the tag Viper? They were always Fighting Falcons. Posted by scourge 4/10/2007 11:06 PM | remove   NOBODY in the Air Force calls them Fighting Falcons. They have been called Vipers for as long as I can remember. Posted by Samurai 4/18/2007 10:35 PM | remove   either way... the guys over in VTANG call them 16's. anyways... i was wondering when this place was going to grace the DB... Last I knew, you could tour the place. You have to call up the Davis Monthan PR office... last I knew (mid-90's) they LOVE to walk people around the place. Posted by scourge 4/21/2007 5:32 AM | remove   That was back when the base ran the tours. Since then, they have transferred control of the tours to the Pima Air & Space Museum, which has really pussified the tour. All you can get is a 20 minute bus tour with heavily tinted windows so your photos won't even come out, and you can't leave the bus. But the museum is cool anyway, because they have a ton of aviation stuff as well as a preserved Titan II missile base. Posted by Snarg 9/20/2007 11:12 PM | remove   I always call them Lawn Darts. Posted by maxt 2/18/2008 5:32 AM | remove   F-16's were called Vipers before they were named Fighting Falcons in a contest won by some TSgt at MacDill. Viper came from Battlestar Galactica, the original one, when they were bringing these birds online. Or so the web tells me. Posted by Samurai 2/19/2008 4:47 PM | remove   in the original competition between the Northrop YF-17 and the General Dynamics YF-16, the official name was "Fighting Falcon", as a tribute to the Air Force Academy. After the fly-off, one of the many nicknames that the 16 had was also "electric jet' due to his innovative (at the time) fly-by-wire control system. Also, the YF-17 also went on to be the McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18 Hornet. (gleaned from US Fighters by Lloyd S. Jones, Aero Press) If you'd like to add a comment, please login or register. All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 484 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 741578355 pages have been generated.