futuredivot 0 #1 August 4, 2008 looks like. Every time I see this fly it blows me awayYou are only as strong as the prey you devour Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tmaricle55 0 #2 August 4, 2008 Take it you had a great time at the air show! Muff Brother # 3883, SCR # 14796 ICD # 1 - Pres. Yeah, I noticed and I think it's funny! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brains 2 #3 August 4, 2008 It is an awesome sight to see it fly over. Every once in a while we get a couple come into Randolph AFB which is three blocks from my office. Most of the managers run outside to look whenever we hear something other than trainers go over Never look down on someone, unless they are going down on you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredivot 0 #4 August 4, 2008 Holy fuck-how did this get to SC--Warning! I also have a pic of the Heritage Flight which had the Raptor, P-47, and P-38 posted. Is that too political?You are only as strong as the prey you devour Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #5 August 4, 2008 WTF? - How did THAT happen? (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
millertime24 8 #6 August 4, 2008 Quote Holy fuck-how did this get to SC--Warning! I also have a pic of the Heritage Flight which had the Raptor, P-47, and P-38 posted. Is that too political? Because theres a bored moderator out there.Or how about this? Because thats a "war" plane and there's no room for that in the BF.It is, however, ok to post pictures of golden balls.Muff #5048 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #7 August 4, 2008 I'll see your Heritage Flight photo and raise you these: (It wasn't me that moved this thread)Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #8 August 4, 2008 Nice shots!Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredivot 0 #9 August 4, 2008 Those are sweet. I once knew a guy that was going to send me a lot of pictures like that. Don't know what ever happened to him You are only as strong as the prey you devour Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
akarunway 1 #10 August 4, 2008 Quote looks like. Every time I see this fly it blows me away Nice pics. Only problem is the USA can only print so much worthless money to pay for these aircraft. I think China actually owns them.I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #11 August 4, 2008 Quote Quote looks like. Every time I see this fly it blows me away Nice pics. Only problem is the USA can only print so much worthless money to pay for these aircraft. I think China actually owns them. Too bad all those union workers drove the cost on them so high, huh? Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredivot 0 #12 August 4, 2008 That's not too bad-If it weren't for the Chinese, I wouldn't be making any money in the piston aircraft market these days You are only as strong as the prey you devour Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cocheese 0 #13 August 4, 2008 I had the Hangar 9 F-22 Raptor r/c plane for a while. I put two "whistles" in it to make it sound like a jet when going over 50 mph. Well the horse fly won. He bit me on the forehead and i crashed big time while trying to swat him away. That plane was cool too. Can't wait to see a real one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BikerBabe 0 #14 August 5, 2008 when i was a young 2lt, i participated in a cockpit sizing study (i.e. measuring current cockpits with very short or very tall people in them to see reaches, space, etc) Got to travel all over the place and sit in just about every aircraft in the operational USAF inventory...but the best and most memorable was the trip to the plant in georgia where the first test models of the f22 were coming off the line...got to play around in a real f22 cockpit. very very cool! It looks like a video game console :PNever meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FreeflyChile 0 #15 August 5, 2008 Quotewhen i was a young 2lt, i participated in a cockpit sizing study (i.e. measuring current cockpits with very short or very tall people in them to see reaches, space, etc) Got to travel all over the place and sit in just about every aircraft in the operational USAF inventory...but the best and most memorable was the trip to the plant in georgia where the first test models of the f22 were coming off the line...got to play around in a real f22 cockpit. very very cool! It looks like a video game console :P Which reminds me of something I've been thinking about for a while and I'll throw it out there for discussion.... Does anyone think that military personnel (pilots and vehicle drivers in particular) are "better" today in any way because this generation has grown up playing videogames? is there an advantage to a pilot going into the Air Force, that he's played flight simulator games growing up? I think Reagan once upon a time said something to the effect that Nintendo was helping train the new generation of warriors... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vortexring 0 #16 August 5, 2008 Sure, it improves hand/eye co-ordination. I remember walking out to my training aircraft with the instructor for my first flight using the instruments.(You wear a 'hood' on your helmet, so simulate being in cloud/IMC) He basically said, don't worry, you'll be crap compared to the younger guys. On asking why he explained because, being older, I'd not been part of the playstation generation like the younger students. Have a look at a WAH-64 cockpit, especially the cyclic and collective and you'll see what I mean. 'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vortexring 0 #17 August 5, 2008 Have a look at this: http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=102085 'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Icon134 0 #18 August 5, 2008 Damn... I was wondering if you got any good shots with the 100-400 zoom that the canon Rep was letting you play with... I guess these shots answer that question. Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
auburnguy 0 #19 August 6, 2008 The engine noise from that plane is INSANE. It is the loudest plane I have ever heard. From what I have been told the planes have had some software glitches in flight but in another couple of years after they have been deployed for long enough im sure the few glitches they do have will have been sorted out. An F22 pilot told me it would take about 17 f-15's to make it a fair fight against 1 raptor, which seems completely believable to me. Given that, imagine what it can do too all that old soviet crap all over the world."If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way." - Homer Simpson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vortexring 0 #20 August 6, 2008 You should hear the Vulcan bomber. Now that's loud! Still, maybe the Russians might have a reply. But then again, I remember the flap over the MiG 29. It wasn't until Germany became unified and the West got to really have a look, and realised that despite being a manouverable machine, the avionics were crap. 'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Leapinglizardto 0 #21 August 6, 2008 Very Nice pics gentlemen!I can't believe this got moved he so fast, but the F*ckedup newfeed one, about psycho-butcher on the bus is STILL in the BF. All heated-up. « shrugs » Must have slid back one too many pages in the forum over the weekend. I guess there really are way to many threads & posts to have to catchup with on the weekends. I'd better quit post whoring on them then! give the mods a break. That has to be an insane task trying to catch up with all the post whores & fucktards, I know I wouldn't want to have to do it. ok divot what did you really do?Come on spill the beans! It's pretty pathetic when you have to TELL people you're fucking cool Skymama «narrative»This thread will lock in 3..2.. What a load of narrow-minded Xenophobic Bullshit!-squeak Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
birdlike 0 #22 August 6, 2008 Quote Quote looks like. Every time I see this fly it blows me away Nice pics. Only problem is the USA can only print so much worthless money to pay for these aircraft. I think China actually owns them. Well, if they ever come to repossess them, and they are met with soldiers at the gates of the airbase with rifles pointed at them, perhaps they can stick flowers into the barrels of those rifles and peace-love-happines will win them back the planes they "own." Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
akarunway 1 #23 August 6, 2008 Quote Quote Quote looks like. Every time I see this fly it blows me away Nice pics. Only problem is the USA can only print so much worthless money to pay for these aircraft. I think China actually owns them. Too bad all those union workers drove the cost on them so high, huh? I can make more money working non union nowadays if I were to choose and drive the prices up further. I just have to compete w/ all the illegalsI hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EvilEagle 0 #24 August 11, 2008 Quote An F22 pilot told me it would take about 17 f-15's to make it a fair fight against 1 raptor, which seems completely believable to me. Really? That seems believable to you? 17 to 1? It's not an x-wing fighter with lasers; it's a jet. I've fought Raptors a lot, it is a great jet. Lots of my friends fly them. But, 17 to one? C'mon... I guess they forgot about the times that they got gunned 1 v 1... It's more than the jet you fly -- it's about who's flying it. The Raptor is awesome, hands down the best jet in the world, but it has issues and nothing is beyond defeat. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EvilEagle 0 #25 August 11, 2008 Quote Does anyone think that military personnel (pilots and vehicle drivers in particular) are "better" today in any way because this generation has grown up playing videogames? is there an advantage to a pilot going into the Air Force, that he's played flight simulator games growing up? I was terrible (and still am) at flying games on Nintendo, Sega, whatever... I never could get passed the tanker on that Top Gun game on Nintendo.... Going to a real tanker? No problem.... Simulating going to the tanker? Get an 8 year old! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
