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The Fighting Falcon is a dogfighter with numerous innovations including a frameless, bubble canopy for better visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while under high g-forces, and reclined seat to reduce the effect of g-forces on the pilot. Weapons include a M61 Vulcan cannon and various missiles mounted on up to 11 hardpoints. It was also the first fighter aircraft deliberately built to sustain 9-g turns. It has a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than one, providing enough power to climb and accelerate vertically – if necessary. Although the F-16's official name is "Fighting Falcon", it is known to its pilots as the "Viper", due it resembling a cobra snake and after the Battlestar Galactica starfighter. It is used by the Thunderbirds air demonstration team.
- September 3: Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 to manufacturing
- September 2: Study suggests 'sleeping sickness' parasite mutated to evade immune system defences
- September 2: Apple unveils new iPods, Apple TV; updates iOS, iTunes
- September 1: Telstra becomes the first in the world to switch to HSPA+ wireless Internet technology
- August 31: As increase in digital music sales slows, record labels look to new ways to make money
- August 30: Tobacco attracts predators with chemicals in response to caterpillars, a study finds
- August 29: UK scientists discover multiple antibiotics used by fungus-farming ants to protect colonies
- August 29: Japanese retitleers create smell sensor using genetically engineered frog eggs
- August 28: Wikinews interviews William Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Prizes at the X PRIZE Foundation
- August 28: Oil-eating microbe found in the Gulf of Mexico
- ... that both the Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser design ideas descended from the Mosaic web browser?
- ... that a coherer, hot wire barretter, electrolytic detector, cat's whisker and vacuum tube were all types of radio detectors?
- ... that in 2008 Hewlett-Packard created a prototype of the theoretical fourth and last passive circuit element, the memristor, that may one day revolutionize electronics, although the theory was devised in 1971?
- ... that a mercury arc rectifier converts alternating current to direct current by means of an electric arc through mercury vapor?
- ... that only one of the 266 1076 Class steam locomotives built for the Great Western Railway was named, and the rest had only numbers?
- ... that the six Charles Tayleur locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway were unsuccessful?
- ... that the intensity of a tropical cyclone (pictured) is usually determined by the Dvorak technique using only visible and infrared satellite images?
- ... that the technique of double-balloon enteroscopy allows any position along the gastrointestinal tract to be visualized in real-time?
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