William Tell is a biennial aerial gunnery competition with fighter aircraft held by the United States Air Force (USAF) in every even-numbered year.
In the competition, teams representing the various major commands of the USAF compete in live-fire exercises, using towed banner targets for gun engagements, and obsolete fighters converted into unmanned target drones (currently QF-4 Phantoms) for air-to-air missile engagements.
The first competition was held in 1949 at a test airfield outside of Las Vegas, NV, now called Nellis AFB.
Alva Temple, Lt. Col James Harvey III, Lt. Col. Harry Stewart, and alternate 1st Lt. Halbert Alexander.
Post-Cold War budget cuts ended William Tell after 1996, although a commemorative 50th anniversary competition was held in 2004.