Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[RJ749]

THE FIRST F/A-22 FIGHTERS DELIVERED TO LANGLEY AFB

These are great in-flight photos of the F/A-22 as the first aircraft delivery was being made to Langley AFB in Virginia.  Langley is to be first Operational AFB for the F/A-22.  It is a very beautiful AFB, located in a picturesque location, as you can see in these photos, near Norfolk and Hampton , VA.
The Aircraft flying along with the F/A-22 in the last of these photos is the F-15, which will be replaced by the F/A-22 which has many improvements over the F-15.
In actual in-flight (simulated) combat operations against the F-15, two F/A-22's were able to operate without detection while going head to head against eight F-15's. The F/A-22's scored missile hits (kills) against all the F-15 Aircraft and the F/A-22's were never detected by either the F-15's or ground-based radar.
Major. Gen. Rick Lewis said: "The Raptor operated against all adversaries with virtual impunity; ground-based systems couldn't engage and NO adversary aircraft survived."
The F/A-22 is America 's most advanced fighter aircraft for the 21st Century. They're a titanium and carbon fiber dagger. They're so advanced that if their on-board locator is switched off even our own satellites can lose track of them. They're the first military aircraft ever built that is equipped with a "black-out button" (BOB).  What that means is this:
The best conditioned fighter pilots are capable of maintaining consciousness up to in the vicinity of 15+ G. The Raptor is capable of making 22+ G turns. If some day an adversary builds a missile that is capable of catching up to one of these airplanes and a Raptor pilot sees that a strike is imminent, he hits the BOB and the airplane makes a virtual U-turn, leaving the missile to pass right on by.  They know that in the process he'll temporarily lose consciousness, so the Raptor then automatically comes back to straight and level flight until he wakes back up.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Fired00d]

A coworker showed me a video of this aircraft in flight a few days ago it is unbelievable the things it was doing.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[Fired00d]

Here it is....



 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[RJ749]

2

[RJ749]

3

[RJ749]

4

[RJ749]

Great link Gary

[RJ749]

Back flip at the airshow

[Fired00d]

It's like the plane is stopping in mid air.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[porthole]

I have seen the F22 flying a few times now. Last time at an air show in AC the pilot did the tail stand move.

Straight up from the deck for a few thousand then slowing to he no longer was climbing - stopped - and then slowly sank back down before flipping. Truly amazing.

Also cool was the F18's doing a flyby at about 50 MPH. Tremendous amount of noise and hardly moving.

[cowboy7123]

I was at Edwards AFB with my KC-10 during the testing of the F-22. Our mission was to refuel the F-22 inflight, VERY VERY nice aircraft. A F-15 looks like a little baby next to it.

[RJ749]

I was at Edwards AFB with my KC-10 during the testing of the F-22. Our mission was to refuel the F-22 inflight, VERY VERY nice aircraft. A F-15 looks like a little baby next to it.

Thanks for your service.

That has to be one wicked ride, I can't even imagine being strapped into that rocket.

Where are the AF guys coming down on the tanker contract to Airbus?  If you don't mind me asking.

[Capo]

Thank you for watchung over us all! Are yiou sure an F-15 can slow to 50? That's stall speed for a C-172! WOW

[porthole]

Thank you for watching over us all! Are you sure an F-15 can slow to 50? That's stall speed for a C-172! WOW

I am only guessing at the speed, based on the bi-plane flybys.
I can tell you that it was all engine and no lift. The planes (2) were flying at what looked to be level flight with the nose at about 45-60 degrees. I waiting to see if my son still has the pictures.

[NukeIT]

I am only guessing at the speed, based on the bi-plane flybys.
I can tell you that it was all engine and no lift. The planes (2) were flying at what looked to be level flight with the nose at about 45-60 degrees. I waiting to see if my son still has the pictures.

I think I have seen this before too. Their nose is too the air and the thrust from the engines is the only thing keeping them airborne as they creep past the grandstand.

If I remember correctly the F-15 is one of the few planes in the world capable of this as well as pure vertical flight because their engines actually have more thrust then the weight of the plane.