Maggie’s F 22 Raptor
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Re: F 22 Raptor
That was AWESOME, thanks for sharing!
I've got two words for y'all.....
<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="color: #FF0000">CONTROL AUTHORITY</span></span>
-Pat
That was AWESOME, thanks for sharing!
I've got two words for y'all.....
<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="color: #FF0000">CONTROL AUTHORITY</span></span>
-Pat
Re: F 22 Raptor
I would soo love to ride in one of those ..........any jet really but one of those ..........oh yea!
Watching that gave me wood
I would soo love to ride in one of those ..........any jet really but one of those ..........oh yea!
Watching that gave me wood
Re: F 22 Raptor
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2002313961490667235#docid=8242656468696285910
Just go to 1:40 if you want to see something pretty cool, but seemingly useless (although I don't have any knowledge of fighter tactics, I'm guessing it doesn't do you much good vs an AMRAAM)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2002313961490667235#docid=8242656468696285910
Just go to 1:40 if you want to see something pretty cool, but seemingly useless (although I don't have any knowledge of fighter tactics, I'm guessing it doesn't do you much good vs an AMRAAM)
Re: F 22 Raptor
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: oldgrayone</div><div class="ubbcode-body">That was just amazing. Will they be carrier material? </div></div>
No, but a carrier version is planned for F-35 (JSF)
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: oldgrayone</div><div class="ubbcode-body">That was just amazing. Will they be carrier material? </div></div>
No, but a carrier version is planned for F-35 (JSF)
Re: F 22 Raptor
For my last few years at Lockheed in Marietta, Ga., I was on the F/A-22 It is a truly incredible bird.
What Al Norman didn't discuss, and I can't, is the bird's uncanny avionics package.
No enemy will remain undetected, unidentified, or still flying when the F/A-22 is around.
I really hate to see the program cut short.
For my last few years at Lockheed in Marietta, Ga., I was on the F/A-22 It is a truly incredible bird.
What Al Norman didn't discuss, and I can't, is the bird's uncanny avionics package.
No enemy will remain undetected, unidentified, or still flying when the F/A-22 is around.
I really hate to see the program cut short.
Re: F 22 Raptor
After seeing photographs of a C-130 on a carrier deck, I'm less sure I know so much about what is and isn't carrier capable.
Ditto the U-2 and carrier decks.
What you see on the outside of the F22 is form following function, and IMHO it's a very pretty airplane. What you see on the outside is maybe 1% of the whole, capability-wise.
Yes the Sukhoi's are capable aircraft, but for the most part, they remain technology demonstrators, AFAIK. The F-22 is here and real.
If you dont like what Congress and the White House are doing with the program, tell your friends come next election time. That's how we got the B-One back.
The B-One may have its problems, but between you and me, I wouldn't want to be standing out in the Middle of an Afghan desert and be flipping a B-One driver the bird.
Greg
After seeing photographs of a C-130 on a carrier deck, I'm less sure I know so much about what is and isn't carrier capable.
Ditto the U-2 and carrier decks.
What you see on the outside of the F22 is form following function, and IMHO it's a very pretty airplane. What you see on the outside is maybe 1% of the whole, capability-wise.
Yes the Sukhoi's are capable aircraft, but for the most part, they remain technology demonstrators, AFAIK. The F-22 is here and real.
If you dont like what Congress and the White House are doing with the program, tell your friends come next election time. That's how we got the B-One back.
The B-One may have its problems, but between you and me, I wouldn't want to be standing out in the Middle of an Afghan desert and be flipping a B-One driver the bird.
Greg
Re: F 22 Raptor
looks like a shitload of fun to fly,,,,,guess I will have to continue to dream of flying,,,,thanks for the vid
looks like a shitload of fun to fly,,,,,guess I will have to continue to dream of flying,,,,thanks for the vid
Re: F 22 Raptor
I have never laid eyes on the f-22, but I worked on some hangars at LHM in Ft. Worth and when they would bring the 35 out it was a show stopper. The whole project would stop and pretty much everyone was out to watch.
I have never laid eyes on the f-22, but I worked on some hangars at LHM in Ft. Worth and when they would bring the 35 out it was a show stopper. The whole project would stop and pretty much everyone was out to watch.
Re: F 22 Raptor
And the Russian Knockoffski;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whe0yPV_OmI&feature=related
And the Russian Knockoffski;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whe0yPV_OmI&feature=related
Re: F 22 Raptor
I'm lucky in living in Palmdale Ca. just west of Plant 42 in that I/we see the R-22 quite a bit. Out at El Mirage we see RPV's ALL the time cause that's where there built.
Respectfully,
LG
I'm lucky in living in Palmdale Ca. just west of Plant 42 in that I/we see the R-22 quite a bit. Out at El Mirage we see RPV's ALL the time cause that's where there built.
Respectfully,
LG
Re: F 22 Raptor
This Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA actually looks a lot like the YF-23 that was in competition against the F-22.
This Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA actually looks a lot like the YF-23 that was in competition against the F-22.
Re: F 22 Raptor
The most relevant disclosure here is the annual flying time per Russian pilot of 19 hours per year.
Lack of flying hours may force Russia to ground MiG-31s
Russia is considering grounding its entire fleet of Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors because a lack of pilot flight hours is making the aircraft dangerous to fly.
Col Gen Victor Prudnikov, chief of Russia's air-defence force, says that, at the present level of annual flying, it is "shameful and criminal" to allow the Foxhound to remain in service. The MiG-31 is notorious for its demanding characteristics, with a tendency to depart from controlled flight at high altitude. Several aircraft have been lost in the past four years.
Prudnikov warns that"-if we don't succeed in improving the level of MiG-31 operations, I will prohibit the type from being flown". He adds that, while the Foxhound is a capable air-defence aircraft, it is "very complicated".
Prudnikov wants aircrew to record around 100 flight hours a year on the type. In 1996, air-defence-force interceptor crews flew an average of only 19h, because of a lack of funding. Along with a desperate shortage of crew hours, MiG-31 units are also pushed for spares.
Aircraft availability is poor, with some units having only 10-20% of their strength flyable at any one time. Perm Motors, which supplies the Foxhound's D30F-6 engine, has refused to sign a service contract for spares support and engine overhaul because it is already owed more than $17 million by the defence ministry and other Government departments.
Grounding several hundred Foxhounds would curtail the air-defence force's combat capability, leaving it reliant on Sukhoi Su-27 Flankers as its primary interceptor aircraft. The Foxhound is also the only aircraft which carries the Vympel R-33 (AA-9Amos) long-range air-to-air missile.
An upgraded variant of the MiG-31, the MiG-31M Fox-hound B, has been under development for around a decade, but is unlikely to ever to enter service.
The future of the air-defence force as an independent combat command is in doubt, with the likelihood that it will be absorbed into the Russian air force. Prudnikov says, however, that the air-defence force could form the core of an air and space-defence force.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/199...nd-mig-31s.html
The most relevant disclosure here is the annual flying time per Russian pilot of 19 hours per year.
Lack of flying hours may force Russia to ground MiG-31s
Russia is considering grounding its entire fleet of Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors because a lack of pilot flight hours is making the aircraft dangerous to fly.
Col Gen Victor Prudnikov, chief of Russia's air-defence force, says that, at the present level of annual flying, it is "shameful and criminal" to allow the Foxhound to remain in service. The MiG-31 is notorious for its demanding characteristics, with a tendency to depart from controlled flight at high altitude. Several aircraft have been lost in the past four years.
Prudnikov warns that"-if we don't succeed in improving the level of MiG-31 operations, I will prohibit the type from being flown". He adds that, while the Foxhound is a capable air-defence aircraft, it is "very complicated".
Prudnikov wants aircrew to record around 100 flight hours a year on the type. In 1996, air-defence-force interceptor crews flew an average of only 19h, because of a lack of funding. Along with a desperate shortage of crew hours, MiG-31 units are also pushed for spares.
Aircraft availability is poor, with some units having only 10-20% of their strength flyable at any one time. Perm Motors, which supplies the Foxhound's D30F-6 engine, has refused to sign a service contract for spares support and engine overhaul because it is already owed more than $17 million by the defence ministry and other Government departments.
Grounding several hundred Foxhounds would curtail the air-defence force's combat capability, leaving it reliant on Sukhoi Su-27 Flankers as its primary interceptor aircraft. The Foxhound is also the only aircraft which carries the Vympel R-33 (AA-9Amos) long-range air-to-air missile.
An upgraded variant of the MiG-31, the MiG-31M Fox-hound B, has been under development for around a decade, but is unlikely to ever to enter service.
The future of the air-defence force as an independent combat command is in doubt, with the likelihood that it will be absorbed into the Russian air force. Prudnikov says, however, that the air-defence force could form the core of an air and space-defence force.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/199...nd-mig-31s.html
Re: F 22 Raptor
f-22 are bad ass.saw a test where one raptor took on 10 f 15's and the the f 15's did'nt stand a chance and they ain't no joke in their own right.
f-22 are bad ass.saw a test where one raptor took on 10 f 15's and the the f 15's did'nt stand a chance and they ain't no joke in their own right.
Re: F 22 Raptor
"The most relevant disclosure here is the annual flying time per Russian pilot of 19 hours per year."
This article was written in 97. I wonder what is happening now?
Yes, some of these are obvious copies. Check out the Chengdu J-10. Obviously the old F-16 test plane fitted with forward canards. I think the Israelis developed something like this also.
"The most relevant disclosure here is the annual flying time per Russian pilot of 19 hours per year."
This article was written in 97. I wonder what is happening now?
Yes, some of these are obvious copies. Check out the Chengdu J-10. Obviously the old F-16 test plane fitted with forward canards. I think the Israelis developed something like this also.
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