At some point in everyone’s life—usually during a particularly dull moment in third grade—a plain white piece of paper inspires a certain degree of aerial imagination. Transforming this thin ...

A dozen years before that, GD had tested the F-16XL, with an arrowhead wing shape that NASA ... the F-16U promised range that would get the aircraft well into Iran—but imposed one condition.

Anita Thomas I’m in the left seat of Snowbird No. 4’s aircraft as the team practices an arrowhead loop formation over a flat January landscape the color of faded wheat near its home base of ...