[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"How does an F16 go slow enough to escort a single-engine plane?"

Circling around it maybe?

[Steve_Seattle]

"How does an F16 go slow enough to escort a single-engine plane?"

Shortly after 9/11, I saw an F-16 (or soemthing similar) escorting a small private plane right over my house. The jet seemed to have the ability to almost stall in place (reverse thrust?) as it monitored the prop plane.

[djf]

Well, they have enough thrust, they can almost hover vertically.

[Walkingfeather]

The moment your plane is buzzed by a jet you better look like a submissive puppy in a instant to signal to those tigers that you are their slave from that moment on, or else.

[LibFreeOrDie]

"How does an F16 go slow enough to escort a single-engine plane?" Circling around it maybe?

The F16's will do slow figure-8's near the small plane. I saw this happen on 9/11, when I was working near Hanscom Field in Massachusetts. We heard a fighter jet scream overhead, we looked up, and saw it do figure 8's near the plane. It turned out that an idiot Massachusetts bureacrat decided he just had to get back from a junket, regardless of the air-travel ban that day.