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Baroque Bloke |
I’ve seen similar F-22 photos before, but there’s a good collection in this article. https://mol.im/a/7387745 Serious about crackers | ||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
The F-22 Raptor is a very impressive combat aircraft. | |||
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Beautiful pictures. That article and captions were childlike in their descriptions though. “Vapes, capes, and streamers”. Never heard those terms used to describe what was pictured. Plus one caption implied the fighter flew between the radio towers on top of the building. Come on. | |||
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Now in Florida |
The Air and Water Show was one of the few things I liked about living in Chicago. I lived right downtown near the beach and it was always super cool watching those jets fly low around the city from my roof deck. Loud as hell too. The sound of freedom. For the record, they don't actually fly "between" the antenna masts of the Hancock Tower. | |||
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Watching a Raptor in May of this year was awe-inspiring. It shouldnt be able to do what is does! | |||
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I love air shows. I've been annoyed at so-called "journalists" for years.
Rolling eyes... Totally sorry for the thread drift. As an apology, here's what IMO is the best photo is of the collection. Bummer it was not a blue sky day, but still love air shows.  Steve Small Business Website Design & Maintenance - https://spidercreations.net | OpSpec Training - https://opspectraining.com | Grayguns - https://grayguns.com Evil exists. You can not negotiate with, bribe or placate evil. You're not going to be able to have it sit down with Dr. Phil for an anger management session either. | |||
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Truth Wins |
I worked in an brand new office building in Hampton Virginia that was under the flight approach to Langley AFB. That was when the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing was flying F-15s and right before they converted to F-22s. The sound proofing standards for buildings in that area jumped way up right after our building was finished. As it was, we could hear an F-15 when it flew over the building, but not greatly. When F-22s flew over, we couldn't hear who we were talking to on the phone. The F-22 was way louder than the F-15. _____________ "I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength—the marrow of Nature." - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
The F-22 had some teething problems, but fewer than the F-35. Even the simplest version, the F-35A. Serious about crackers | |||
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| Just for the hell of it  |
Saw one fly a few years back at the Andrews Air Show. The ability of those planes to turn with the thrust vectoring was impressive. _____________________________________ Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac | |||
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Still finding my way |
Beautiful piece of machinery. | |||
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| bigger government = smaller citizen  |
But isn't that what causes the thunder when they go really fast? The storm clouds? “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken | |||
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I volunteer at an airshow each year. My group is near the medical tents. One of the medical groups has doctors both active and retired from practice. We've had the F-22 perform several times. I saw it the first day of the airshow the first time - on the second day, a doctor I know was on duty at one tent - she is a retired Navy flight surgeon. I advised her to step out and watch the F-22 - her reply was along the lines of "I've seen so many airplanes", but she went out anyway. The pilot did part of the "falling leaf" maneuver. The doctor's expression was priceless. The F-22 has vectored thrust. During the above maneuver, the plane will appear to be fluttering down in a nose-down configuration without accelerating in the descent. Quite impressive. Our airshow is coming up in less than six weeks. I'll have to check and see if it will be there this year. | |||
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Now and Zen |
A little known fact is that the F-22 is capable of farting rainbows.  ___________________________________________________________________________ "....imitate the action of the Tiger." | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
^^^^^ Now, that is a STUNNING photo! flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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goodheart |
Great photos, terrible description of what’s happening with the vapor cloud around the transonic aircraft. Try this:
Link _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing  |
Well it is the Air Force after all...  My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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