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General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon Blueprint Wall Art
Open production · Made after your order
A hand-plotted technical blueprint, drawn stroke by stroke in real ink.
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A technical plan of the General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon, drawn line by line in pen on 250gsm paper, at 11 x 17 in. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. On the back, a serial number and date, plotted in UV ink in the same pass as the drawing.
The Falcon's silhouette exists in file form everywhere. What doesn't exist everywhere is a single copy you can point to and say who drew it, where, on what day, under what number.
The General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon was the first production fighter deliberately designed to be aerodynamically unstable, using fly-by-wire controls to turn that instability into extreme agility. Born from the U.S. Air Force's Lightweight Fighter program and first flown in 1974, it introduced a distinctive bubble canopy for 360-degree visibility. More than 4,600 have been built, making it one of the most widely flown jet fighters in the world.
At a Glance
- ◆First flight, February 1974
- ◆Over 4,600 built total
- ◆World's most common fighter jet
- ◆Deliberately aerodynamically unstable design
- ◆360-degree bubble canopy visibility
- ◆Used by over 25 nations
Each piece is physically plotted by the studio's precision robot in Québec City, using Stabilo® Fineliners and Sakura® Gelly Roll inks on 250 gsm (120 lb) stock — stroke by stroke, never printed. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. The result is a tactile, hand-plotted finish — never printed.
Specifications
> FORMAT: Tabloid Standard [11" x 17"]
> INK SYSTEM: Stabilo® Fineliner / Sakura® Gelly Roll
> SUBSTRATE: 250gsm High-Density Stock [120lb]
> EXECUTION: Precision Vector Plotting
> PRODUCTION: Open · plotted after you order
> ORIGIN: Québec City, Canada
What the robot does, what a person does
The robot
- ◆runs the file
- ◆traces the line
- ◆lays down ink
- ◆repeats without tiring
A person
- ◆picks the aircraft
- ◆designs the linework
- ◆decides which lines disappear
- ◆sets pressure, speed, pen height
- ◆watches the plot start to end
- ◆signs, numbers, packs
Drawn by a robot. Designed by a person.
Included
Production timelapse included — every order · no extra cost
Watch your piece being plotted, line by line, by the studio's robot. A personal timelapse of your production is sent with every order — to share, or to keep as a record of how your piece came to be.
Hidden signature
Real footage — an early production piece, shown under blacklight.
A signature only UV light reveals
On the back of every piece, in the same pass as the drawing, we plot a signature invisible under normal light — codeink.art, the piece's name and serial number, the year, and Québec. Shine a blacklight on it and it glows.
“The F-16 was built to be unstable on purpose — a machine that only flies because a computer corrects it thousands of times a second. Tracing it by hand felt like the opposite: something slow enough that no correction is needed, only patience.”
Open production, no duplicates
Each plot is made after you order, one at a time. The pen wears slightly with every hour of use, ink density shifts, and no two lines close at exactly the same point — nothing is corrected or hidden.
PERFECTLY imperfect.
A real process, not a printer
Each piece is physically plotted, pen on paper, in Québec City — watch the machine work.
Watch the process14-day returns
Real defects — shipping damage, wrong colour, missing lines — are replaced free of charge.
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Numbered and signed
A unique serial number and the date are plotted on the back in UV ink — invisible to the naked eye, laid down in the same pass as the drawing.
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