Pushing the limits

Roelof-Jan Gort catches up with the Belgian Air Component’s F-16 demonstration team and finds out what it takes to be a ‘Viper’ showman. In its element: the Belgian Air Component’s F-16 demonstration team jet for 2017, F-16AM serial FA-123, better known as ‘Blizzard’. Tom De Moortel was the 17th Belgian Air Component pilot to hold the post of solo demo pilot. All photos Jeroen van Veenendaal The Belgian Air Component received its first F-16 Fighting Falcon (the Belgianmanufactured Block 1