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USAF Photo of the Day: Four Deadly USAF F-22A Raptor Stealth Fighter Jets Over United Arab Emirates
ChamorroBible.org ^ | December 9, 2009 | USAF SSgt. Michael B. Keller, Combat Photographer

Posted on 03/17/2010 4:31:46 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife


4000 x 2662 pixels . . . 3005 x 2000 pixels . . . 2103 x 1400 pixels . . . via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200905.htm

The Photographer 
Staff Sgt. Michael B. Keller, United States Air Force  



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: east; f22a; middle; raptor

1 posted on 03/17/2010 4:31:46 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
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To: EnjoyingLife

That photo is so clear that I can smell them. I love the smell of flightlines and sweaty horses.


2 posted on 03/17/2010 4:33:59 AM PDT by 999replies (Thune/Rubio 2012)
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To: 999replies

This is one of my favorite pictures of the F-22, flying CAP when the shuttle went up.

3 posted on 03/17/2010 4:36:41 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

that is an awesome picture


4 posted on 03/17/2010 4:39:29 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: EnjoyingLife

Outstanding!


5 posted on 03/17/2010 4:45:51 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
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To: Abathar

Oh, COOOL!


6 posted on 03/17/2010 4:47:00 AM PDT by VermiciousKnid (Sic narro nos totus!)
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To: EnjoyingLife

Pictures like these remind me of why I’m so proud to be an American - thank you for posting them.

I pray to God that we are able to find the leadership that this great country - and and the memory of its magnificent founding fathers - deserve.

When I view photos like this I feel so good for a few moments, then the reality of the crap occupies the WH and Congress rears its ugly head and depresses me again...

OMG, what did we ever do to deserve the likes of Barack Obama and Eric Holder and Pelosi and Reid and Schumer...I’m gonna be sick.


7 posted on 03/17/2010 4:49:33 AM PDT by StatenIsland (If we insist that 99 1/2 wonÂ’t do, gotta have a hundred, we will again wind up with zero.)
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To: EnjoyingLife

Why the external fuel tanks I wonder.


8 posted on 03/17/2010 4:52:06 AM PDT by RC one (WHAT!!!!)
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To: RC one

I’ve never seen an F-22 with tanks.


9 posted on 03/17/2010 4:54:59 AM PDT by ryan71 (Let's Roll!)
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To: EnjoyingLife; Abathar

Thanks for posting. Very nice.


10 posted on 03/17/2010 4:56:36 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: EnjoyingLife

Bravo Zulu

Regards

alfa6 ;>}


11 posted on 03/17/2010 4:58:37 AM PDT by alfa6
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To: EnjoyingLife

Pictures like this get this old Sarge’s heart racing in the morning!


12 posted on 03/17/2010 5:00:56 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: Abathar

Cool pic. I tested telemetry on compound 16 at Cape Canaveral in the late ‘80’s. Good memories. I will save this one to the desktop.


13 posted on 03/17/2010 5:04:19 AM PDT by 999replies (Thune/Rubio 2012)
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To: EnjoyingLife

I like the F-22.

IMO that is the a/c we should be building. Build the heck out of them!


14 posted on 03/17/2010 5:20:10 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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To: RC one

Some of them (I believe) went long range to Okinawa and Europe thus the extra capacity.


15 posted on 03/17/2010 5:23:06 AM PDT by JimVT (Oh, the days of the Kerry dancing, Oh, the ring of the piper's tune)
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To: EnjoyingLife

I hope none of them is talking on his cell phone. We don’t want any lane drift.


16 posted on 03/17/2010 5:27:42 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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To: JimVT

I hope they plan on using these things as more than uberexpensive photo opportunities. I would be sad if we wasted their airframes flying around not killing things. We need to get the commie in chief out of office ASAP so we can start making these things again because Russia isn’t going to hold back on their T-50. I personally don’t want the best socialized healthcare in the world or the best high speed rail in the world, I want the best fighter jets in the world and I want the best space program in the world.


17 posted on 03/17/2010 5:51:24 AM PDT by RC one (WHAT!!!!)
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To: RC one

To reach Iran from the UAE


18 posted on 03/17/2010 5:55:26 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Tax the poor. Taxes will give them a stake in society)
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