[tanknetter]

Because the D model plane is the ONE TAKING THE PICTURES !!!

My bad on earlier post. 187FW does have a red-tailed F-16D, apparently the one involved: pic here

[Pikachu_Dad]

By golly, you are a genius.

I was looking for the picture of that plane, but it eluded my feeble google search skills.

HOW did you find it?

That's the bird. AND A TWO SEATER TO BOOT.

So perhaps they needed this particular bird because it is a two seater. The photographer had to sit somewhere.

Are there many two seater birds?

Or was it more important that it had the red tail?

[Pikachu_Dad]

So how do they work planes in the AF?

Do pilots fly just any old plane, or

I you know the bird, you know the pilot?