Desktop Wallpaper (F-22 Raptor Over California)1024x768

[Echo Talon]

Found this picture on af.mil resized to 1024x768 and added the lettering.

Origional caption from af.mil
Raptor
OVER CALIFORNIA -- An F/A-22 Raptor flies a training mission here.

[freedumb2003]

I like the F22, I really do.

But when it comes to beauty, no airship of any kind will ever surpass the F-15:

OoOps -- that was a shot I got when I did a google image search for "F-15." Here's what I was looking for:

[Echo Talon]

On my blog I have the same picture with "F-22 Raptor" for the lettering. If you like that better check it out. address is in my tagline. I cant post that picture on tinypic because its a little larger than 250k.

[Echo Talon]

You know what. We are on the same wavelength. The F-15 is my favorite also. :P I have to admit the Raptor is better and could take it out easily.... But I have a fond love for the F-15 :D It just looks so cool.

[freedumb2003]

I have heard that when they added a lot of armor to the F-22 it slowed it down to make it even with the F-15. But I also heard they overcame that problem and the F-22 is the new air superiority aircraft.

And it is pretty enough -- a lot better than the F-117 (blech). But the F-15 is so graceful -- it looks like it is flying even when on the ground.

Gone are days of the truly beautiful aircraft (the F-14 is another fave of mine, and the F/A-18 ain't bad either). OTOH they have yet to make a jet as ugly as the F-1 Phantom (lol).

[Echo Talon]

Wow, I think we have same taste in aircraft. I hated the F-1 also! :P I also like the F-80/T-33 Shooting Star :D Its an oldie but I love the way it looks.

[Fierce Allegiance]

The F-22 and F-15 are real cool, but my fave is the hog. I love the sound of the gun.

[Echo Talon]

by god, I think they gone and slapped some wings on a tank. :D

[Fierce Allegiance]

It may be as ugly as sin, but it sure does the job it was designed to perform as well as possible. My daughters know full well and will tell you this baby is "One bad-ass tank killer!"

[Echo Talon]

I know, thr A-10 is one "badass" machine. :D That gun is a BFG.

[NerdDad]

The A-10 is so ugly it hurts. But there are few things in the air more beautiful to a ground pounder in need of some help.

It's design makes it surprisingly quiet on approach---well, until that BFG starts burping. There is nothing that has better loiter time and survivability over a hot zone as that beautiful ugly beast. The payload it is capable of bringing to bear on a situation is enormous. For the kind of engagements our guys are involved in these days, we should have 10 times as many of these hell-breathing animals as are in the theater.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I want an A-10 for commuting!