Tag Archives: Vintage

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Rochester Air Show takes off this Saturday at the Frederick Douglass Rochester International Airport. You can check out both vintage and high-tech aircraft at the event. Earlier this week, the MQ-9 Reaper drone landed at the airport. The New York Air National Guard, based out of …

When the US Air Force launched the F-16 Fighting Falcon in 1979, it had something no other military jet did: a computer. Four, actually. Their electrical signals commanded the aircraft instead of gears and pulleys, ushering aerial combat into the digital era. Now, after fighting in the Gulf and Iraq …