Download or read book Inside History of the Usaf Lightweight Fighters, 1900 to 1975 written by Herbert A. Hutchinson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, in two volumes, attempts to explain the technology developments that evolved in the period from 1900 at Kitty Hawk through the ensuing seventy-five years leading to the development of the United States F-16 Multinational Weapon System in the mid-1970s. By 2017, 4,550 F-16s, all with the first all-electric, fly-by-wire flight control system have been manufactured for use by twenty-six countries. Awestricken birds undoubtedly ask themselves, How do humans do that? as an F-16 streaks by at over two hundred times the airspeed of the bird. This book strives to provide the how-and-why answer to that fascinating story.