Jay Honeck wrote:
- F-16 Viper
I've noticed this elsewhere. When did they stop calling the F16 the Falcon?

I don't know anyone who calls it by its proper name, "Fighting
Falcon". I have no idea why the name "Falcon" didn't catch on....


But it did catch on. A Google of the terms...
"F-16 Fighting Falcon" = 353,000
"F-16 Falcon" = 186,000
"F-16 Viper" = 48,100

It is just recently (last year or so) that I've heard the term Viper
used. I saw a high school friend of mine in 2001. He knows I fly and I
knew he was in the NG flying. When I asked him what he flew now he said,
"Falcons."