With leading edge stealth technology and thrust vectoring.

 

oooooooooh love those big words





































and the Dad winks at Mom aint bad either

 

Mom-

(1) Thrust vectoring=variable pitch turbine exhaust nozzles. Can turn on a dime.

(2) Actually, dad sent mom home to LA from Keesler AFB (Buloxi, Miss.) at the absolute last minute so The Raptor wouldn't have Mississippi on his birth certificate. True story.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Raptor
[B]Mom-

(1) Thrust vectoring=variable pitch turbine exhaust nozzles.

 

With Variable Pitched Noises

 

 

That's it, Wicky. My car was named after that bird and I was named after my car.

 

 

I saw it's public flying debut at the Edwards AFB air show I always thought the FA18 Hornet was a very maneuverable bird, but the F22 made its FA18 chase plane look like a beer truck. The following year at the air show it was static display only. I asked a crew member and he said "The only reason you got to see it fly last year was because it was tied to a training mission. It doesn't have its full avionics poackage yet and is still tethered to a crew in the tower. For us to send it up would cost $70,000 in fuel consumption. (Sounded like bullshit to me.)

 

political smokescreen........

it does seem to be quite the amazing machine. But I question it's purpose. It can outfly anything anywhere in the world, but our air power roll seems to be quite different now than twenty years ago.....