Capt. Matthew Feeman in an F-16 Fighting Falcon approaches a Cessna airplane, flown by South Carolina's Civil Air Patrol, to initiate a "head butt" as part of exercise Fertile Keynote Nov. 19, 2009 above South Carolina. A head butt is an action taken by the intercepting aircraft to redirect the intruder in the appropriate direction after other communications, like radio contact, have failed. Captain Feeman is an F-16 alert pilot from the 55th Fighter Squadron Senior Airman Michael Cowley)

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