Dave Patterson: The F-47 — A Sixth-Generation Air Dominance Jet Fighter

The glory days of fighter aircraft dogfights are not gone — just different. On March 21, President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office that the US Air Force had selected a winner in the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) sixth-generation jet fighter competition: the Boeing Company’s F-47, which beat out Lockheed. In the future, an adversary will be killed by a missile fired from beyond visual range by a fighter never seen.