FEATURE ARTICLE // 36TH FIGHTER SQUADRON
The storied 36th Fighter Squadron ‘Fiends’ has been celebrating its centenary over the past year. Combat Aircraft takes a closer look at this famous unit.
Navigating the craggy peaks of Alaska, a three-ship of ‘Fiends’ F-16Cs on the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex (JPARC) during ‘Distant Thunder’. All photos Scott Wolff unless credited otherwise
ASK ANY AVIATION photographer about their ‘bucket list’ and you can almost guarantee that flying in Alaska is on it. The 49th state is a place that changes you once you’ve been there. It’s both enormous and wild — the rugged peaks of the Alaska Range, deep glacial valleys, and open plains of arctic tundra that cover thousands of square miles challenge one’s perspective of what ‘vast’ truly means. Not only that, but Alaska has more than 2.4 million square miles of airspace and nearly 750 recorded landing areas.
