
F-16 "Viper Pilot"...Aviation Art
Limited-Edition Print of 500 (13x19) Signed and numbered by the Artist. The General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin) F-16 Fighting Falcon (Viper) is a single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,500 aircraft have been built since production was approved in 1976. Here we see a Pilot wearing the Scorpion Helmet Mounted Cueing System (HMCS) Thales Introduced the Scorpion Helmet-Mounted Cueing System to the military aviation market in 2008. Scorpion was the winner of the Helmet Mounted Integrated Targeting (HMIT) program in 2010. Scorpion has the distinction of being the first color HMD introduced. It was developed for targeting pod, gimbaled sensor or high off-boresight missile cueing mission scenarios. Unlike most HMDs, which require custom helmets, Scorpion was designed to be instal