An F-16 took off from Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., on Sept. 19 without a pilot in the cockpit.
You read that right. The first QF-16 drone flew over Florida last Thursday as a part of a program led by Boeing to convert retired F-16s into QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Targets for U.S. pilots to shoot down.
The pilotless F-16 took off and flew a 55-minute sortie as it executed maneuvers pulling up to 7G’s, reaching an altitude of 40,000 feet, and breaking the sound barrier at Mach 1.47.
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