Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City is hosting the Thunderbirds and a number of other aerial performers. Top speed is almost 900 miles per hours for the T-38s ... for the Talon-drivers of ...

These days, the Blue Angels operate the F/A-18 Super Hornet. In 1974, the Thunderbirds switched over to the T-38 Talon, which would be the last fighter jet flown by the unit before moving onto the ...

Thunderbirds McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II number 7 at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ. (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons) Northrup’s T-38 Talon two-seat trainer aircraft was ...

The Thunderbirds are the official demonstration ... including the F-4E Phantom and the T-38 Talon, before transitioning to the extraordinary F-16 fighter and ultimately switching to the F-16C ...

T-38 Talon (1974-1981) The Thunderbirds flew T-38 Talons from 1974-1981, the only period during which the team flew training aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Tristin English ...

1969-73: The Thunderbirds flew the Air Force’s front-line fighter, the F-4E Phantom. 1974: The Thunderbirds converted to the T-38 Talon, the world’s first supersonic trainer. The T-38 was more ...

T-38 Talon, and presently F-16 Fighting Falcons) and crews, and were not spared tragedy. As impressive as they are in the sky, the member of the Thunderbirds are forever linked to one of the ...

The demonstration squadron flew the T-38 Talon trainer during the 1970s oil ... the combat warfighter with that airplane before the Thunderbirds think about changing to … that aircraft." ...

Pilots practice touch-and-go maneuvers in a T-38 Talon during training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, in 2013. A T-38 assigned to Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma, crashed on Friday.

Airmen conduct pre-flight operations with the T-38 Talon training jet as part of undergraduate pilot training at Vance Air Force Base, Okla., Dec. 9, 2021. (Airman 1st Class Christian Soto/Air ...