Raptor at an air show vid. WOW!!!

[Al Swearengen®]

Check this video out.

http://www.militarytimes.com/multim...w=&state=vid&em=false&fn=/flv/20080714_rc_f22

Just makes you proud to be an American.

 

[gringogigante]

Holy Crap. I almost lost my lunch a few times on that one! I could have sworn he was going to stall out a few times there.

 

[cougartex]

Thanks for posting.

 

[txinvestigator]

I am hoping the Alliance Air Show will feature a Raptor Demo this year. It is an amazing aircraft.

 

[robin303]

Thanks. Got to love thrust vectoring nozzels.

 

[Wolfwood]

the F22 is a baaad baad machine.

i wouldnt mind having a few of those in the garage.

i'll prolly have to settle for a couple propane powered gyrocopters though

 

[308nato]

Great video

 

[BurkGlocker]

This past air show that we had had a Raptor in it. We only lived about half a mile from the flight line, so we got to basically watch the show from our back porch without having to deal with the hassel of putting up with the traffic to get on and off base.

As it took off it looked like it wasnt going to get anywhere, the all of the sudden, the rear end flipped foward and the plane went straight up in the air. But throughout the whole show, just watching some of the manuvers, I could only compare the F-22 to a ballerina... a very, VERY, bad ass ballerina... It was here, then it was there, and it did things that I never, ever saw an aircraft ever do, but it did it gracefully...

 

[Dirt]

Very Cool VID!