[MarineBrat]

Here’s a nice streaming video of an F22 Raptor demo flight...

http://easylink.playstream.com/flighttv/f22_airshow_langley_2_.wvx

[Emperor Palpatine]

I WANT one!


I'd love to go, but prior commitments kept me from attending this year. Were there any old warbirds there? I had the privilege several years ago to ride right seat for a spell in one of the few restored B-17's around. My dad flew one during the war. Noisy as H-E-double hockey sticks and they vibrated like crazy, plus for such a large aircraft the interior is almost clautrophobic.

It gave me a whole new respect for those guys who flew these unheated and unpressurized things in subzero temperatures for hours and hours over enemy territory getting shot at.