F22 Raptor wows Farnborough

bbc.co.uk ^

[MARKUSPRIME]

Nice new F-22 vid.

[MARKUSPRIME]

Enjoy.

[IncPen]

Click to see the video

[econjack]

To me, one of the neatest parts of the video comes at about 4:30 into it and a very skillful pilot “tail walks” the Raptor. This is when there's barely enough forward speed to keep it flying, but the engines have enough thrust to keep it in the air. At that moment, the Raptor is more of a rocket than a plane. I'd hate to be in another plane with that pilot PO’ed at me!

[gridlock]

The F22 Raptor fighter jet took to the skies at the Farnborough air show. The US Air Force aircraft is made by Lockheed Martin, and is arguably the world's most sophisticated fighter jet.

I think, after that demonstration, we can drop the "arguably"...

That high angle-of-attack maneuver was un-Freepin'-believable!

[gridlock]

How about how the pilot then transitions from the low-speed tail walk to a high speed pass the other way, in a matter of seconds. Note that the camera is on him the whole way... Wow!

[MARKUSPRIME]

Yup the eurofigher = toast vs a raptor.Not even close.

[proudmilitarymrs]

just wow

makes me so proud!!

mrs

[McBuff]

All hostile nation fighter pilots have just soiled their flight suits!

[dearolddad]

just wow

makes me so proud!!

This started running through my mind as I watched the Video.

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long delirious, burning blue, I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or even eagle flew - And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untresspassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee No 412 squadron, RCAF Killed 11 December 1941

[Pentagon Leatherneck]

The Raptor breaks all the rules about angle-of-attack. When testing first began, I was skeptical about all the hype from the test team No more. What a great fighter.

TC

[TheBattman]

Link loads, but video doesn’t - appears their servers for the video are getting hammered...

[aegiscg47]

At exercises here at Hill AFB in Utah they usually have to pit up to six F-16s against one F-22 just to make it fair. At the air show here last year there were several F-22s here for an exercise and they came back about halfway through the air show and four of them came out of nowhere, flew up to the middle of the flight line, pretty much appeared to stop in mid-air, then accelerated straight up and were gone. The crowd and myself were stunned to say the least.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

What about early on when the plane does an “about face;” I don’t think there’s been a plane since the Fokker DR-1 that could do that! Being on his 6 is no advantage to an attacker!

[12Gauge687]

As I write this, the Russians and Chinese are probably trying to obtain as many of the Raptor’s advanced avionics and weapons secrets as possible.

I remember going to the 1977 Paris Air Show (50th anniversary of Lindbergh’s flight); everybody was wowed by the huge Soviet transport jet, bigger than a C-5 Galaxy. Warsaw Pact officers were checking out the Grumman and McDonnell-Douglas displays; not too long after, twin-tailed MiGs and Sukhois were the news. Coincidence?

[FreeAtlanta]

The F22 will be the last great manned fighter.

[FreeAtlanta]

As much as I love air-shows, maybe we shouldn’t show this much of our good stuff.

[jazusamo]

Excellent video and a great fighter, thanks for posting.