U.S. Air Force footage takes viewers inside the deafening “hush house” facilities where F-16 engines producing over 30,000 pounds of thrust are removed, inspected, and tested at extreme power levels, ...

Rare U.S. Air Force footage shows what happens after an F-16’s engine is pulled from the jet and taken to a specialized test facility known as a hush house. Despite the name, the engine is run at ...

The Air Force is changing how F-16 crews inspect a “blind spot” in the plane’s engine that has been at the root of at least two accidents in the last two years, including one that destroyed an Air ...

In a critical milestone towards the first flight later this year, Shield AI and GE Aerospace integrated the X-BAT with the AVEN thrust vectoring system which was tested in the 1990s on the F-16.

An Air Force Thunderbird F-16 crashed in 2025 when its engine blew up, as did a training jet in New Mexico in 2024. Investigators traced both mishaps to a "blind spot" inside the engine. By Matt White ...