One Raptor, one Eagle on a training sortie high above the Gulf of Mexico, USA. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20060914.htm ( medium, large, huge)
The Photographer
Staff Sgt. James L. Harper Jr., United States Air Force
Posted on 07/25/2011 10:12:35 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
One Raptor, one Eagle on a training sortie high above the Gulf of Mexico, USA. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20060914.htm ( medium, large, huge)
The Photographer
Staff Sgt. James L. Harper Jr., United States Air Force
Please pardon another basic question but are those extra fuel tanks on the wings of the F16? Great pic.
The fighter on the left is an F-15 Eagle, the one on the rifght is an F-22 Raptor. There is no F-16 in that picture.
Probably about 100’ apart - they are a bit bigger than they look and seem to be almost touching during air shows even though they are usually 60’-70’ apart.
Eagle & Raptor
It is First Fighter Wing. And not so far off. I see them at Maxwell from time to time and at Tyndall a lot!
LOL!
Sorry about that. I was speaking about the one on the left.
Yes First Fighter is at Langley. If you see an interview with a pilot on one of the History type channels it is almost always with a Langley pilot.
I guess the fact that they are so close to Washington DC is the reason.
My father worked at Tyndall from the late 40’s to around 54. He then worked at Eglin until he retired around 1980.
Looks to be about 50 ft wingtip-to-wingtip
Do we know they are males, females pilot them also.
Cool.
Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I am at 80,000 feet and climbing!
F-15 (Deployed 1976): Length: 63.75ft Wing: 42.83ft, Height: 18.50ft.
F-22 (Deployed 2003): Length: 62.08ft Wing: 44.50ft, Height: 16.67ft.
In the picture here, not sure, but pretty close, less than 50' and my guess is loose fingertip meaning about 20-30' between wingtips.
Not too far when you super-cruise.
Fine. “Men” in this case may mean humans of either sex (not gender-words have gender-masculine, feminine or neutral; people are of one “sex” or the other).
I remember my english grammar rules quite well. I prefer not to be politically correct and therefore tend not to cater to the weak mentality of the PC masses.
PS. A daughter is an officer in the USAF, that should get me out of “jail”.
I like what you say but I still prefer John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (9 June 1922 – 11 December 1941) "High Flight"
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent lifting mind I have trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
- Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
This from an American Spitfire pilot flying at a max altitude of 35,000ft.
The F-16 TOOK the picture.. ;)
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