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USAF Photo of the Day: An F-15 Eagle and an F-22A Raptor fly over Langley AFB, Virginia
ChamorroBible.org ^
| April 27, 2005
| U.S. Air Force TSgt. Ben Bloker
Posted on 12/17/2010 12:44:04 PM PST by EnjoyingLife
The Via
http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20050822.htm (photo 16)
The Photographer
Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker, United States Air Force
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: eagle; f15; f22; raptor
To: EnjoyingLife
I love the way that the latest technology always seems to make the planes look cooler.
I mean, you could get technology that makes the plane look like a box. But no! It looks more & more awesome
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posted on
12/17/2010 12:46:35 PM PST
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(Leftys who zone in on Palin miss the point. America's not about single figures. That's for NK/Cuba.)
To: EnjoyingLife
Wow! Just, WOW! Incredible aircraft both.
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posted on
12/17/2010 12:46:50 PM PST
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier preparing to deploy to Afghanistan)
To: EnjoyingLife
Not bad for a couple of kerosene-burners.
There we've got both the old and the new, but ain't neither one of 'em slow...
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posted on
12/17/2010 12:46:50 PM PST
by
Oberon
(Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
To: EnjoyingLife
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posted on
12/17/2010 12:46:55 PM PST
by
daniel boob
(Doesn't matter what this says - you will call it racist)
To: EnjoyingLife
Beautiful photo! Thanks for posting it.
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posted on
12/17/2010 12:47:36 PM PST
by
mojitojoe
(In itÂ’s 1600 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
To: EnjoyingLife
Ya know, they’re not twins, but definitely siblings. Close resemblance.
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posted on
12/17/2010 12:50:37 PM PST
by
biggerten
(Love you, Mom.)
To: EnjoyingLife
Thanks for the new desktop background!
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posted on
12/17/2010 12:53:45 PM PST
by
duckworth
(Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
To: EnjoyingLife
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posted on
12/17/2010 12:55:36 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(:*))) MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU!!!!!)
To: Christian Engineer Mass
I mean, you could get technology that makes the plane look like a box. But no! It looks more & more awesome.Well there was the F-117 Nighthawk... sometimes refered to as the "Hopeless Diamond" after it's decidedly non-aerodynamic shape.
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posted on
12/17/2010 12:57:30 PM PST
by
Tallguy
(Received a fine from the NFL for a helmet-to-helmet hit.)
To: Tallguy
Not aerodynamic, but still totally cool
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posted on
12/17/2010 1:04:07 PM PST
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(Leftys who zone in on Palin miss the point. America's not about single figures. That's for NK/Cuba.)
To: Christian Engineer Mass
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posted on
12/17/2010 1:08:35 PM PST
by
Tallguy
(Received a fine from the NFL for a helmet-to-helmet hit.)
To: EnjoyingLife
Several years ago, my Niece dated a pilot from Eglin. I once asked him what the FF meant on a plane’s tail as it seemed to be the ones they always showed on TV.
He said it stood for “First Fighter Wing”, out of Langley. He said among the pilots it was often called “Worst Fighter”. Apparently he didn’t think much of them.
I noticed the F-22 has TY on it which I think must be Tyndall.
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posted on
12/17/2010 1:39:24 PM PST
by
yarddog
To: EnjoyingLife
Yeah, but who took the picture?
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posted on
12/17/2010 1:41:45 PM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(...and now for something completely different...)
To: EnjoyingLife
Back in my drinking days, I used to guzzle with a former F4 Phantom pilot. He talked about when the F15s started to show up in service and how in a single day he and his fellow hot shot Phantom drivers became some of the humblest folks in the USAF.
I suspect a similar thing happened the first day the F22s showed up to play with the Eagles.
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posted on
12/17/2010 1:44:41 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: EnjoyingLife
One from here.
Lead plane is from Tyndall AFB Panama City, Florida...thus the "TY" on its tail.
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posted on
12/17/2010 1:50:53 PM PST
by
capt. norm
(Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
To: yarddog
Yep. We have a bunch of those over here at Tyndall.
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posted on
12/17/2010 1:53:27 PM PST
by
TalonDJ
To: EnjoyingLife
Sweet post.
Was working at Kadena AB on Okinawa when the F-22 deployed there - they put on quite a show.
Got to watch them go against the F-15s - the turning radius of the F-22s is incredible - too bad for the F-15s!
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posted on
12/17/2010 1:59:23 PM PST
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: Tallguy
Ben Rich was the guy who designed the jet engine nacelles on the A-12/YF-12/SR-71 for Kelly Johnson.
Ben later followed Kelly as the director of the Skunk works, during which time the F-117 was designed.
Ben said in his autobiography that the angular look of the Nighthawk, made up of flat polygons, was due to the limitations of the technology at the time; particularly the available power of the computer simulations of the Radar cross section.
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posted on
12/17/2010 2:19:36 PM PST
by
Erasmus
(Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
To: EnjoyingLife
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