VIDEO - F-22 Raptor’s power and agility displayed at airshow [Langley AFB]

Flight ^ | June 1, 2007 | Graham Warwick

[LurkedLongEnough]

Here is a video showcasing the capability of the US Air Force’s first F-22A flight demonstration routine, now wowing audiences at North American air shows and challenging perceptions of the Raptor.

This fighter best known for stealth, speed and sensors, has been designed to evade radar, supercruise above Mach 1.5 and fly at 65,000ft.

With its two Pratt & Whitney F119 engines vectoring their 35,000lb of afterburning thrust through +/-20º as an integral part of the flight-control system, the F-22 proves itself to be surprisingly agile, performing helicopter turns, tailsides and backflips.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Airshow fans must check out the backflips!

Video clip also available at the source site.

Turn up your volume before launch!

[Philistone]

Get to see it live on Sunday at the Capitol Air Show in Sacramento! Can’t wait!

[johnny7]

Crap... all I got was code!

[ASA Vet]

Self Ping so I can watch the video later. (My employer blocked it.)

[Doogle]

"how cool is dat"

[Snoopers-868th]

Awesome. It is just a damn shame we cannot take advantage of our great arsenal in this war in Iraq and end it. I fear even the Administration has no guts for war.

[Rummyfan]

BFLV!

[NeonKnight]

bump for later viewing

[American_Centurion]

Impressive backflips.

I can’t wait to see what an aircraft “parked” in the sky looks like, as mentioned at the end of the linked article.

All I can say is Wow!

[WilliamWallace1999]

Well, now I know what the U.S. military has done with all the anti-gravity technology we got from the Roswell crash site. That bird is AWESOME!!!!!

[jazusamo]

Absolute great video of the F-22. Thanks for posting.

[shekkian]

Bookmark for later

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Veeery cool!

[43north]

We can build an airplane like this but we can’t secure our borders? Yeah, right!

[Aeronaut]

[steveo]

They did a couple of passes over my house this morning. Listening to the scanner provided amusement as one of the pilots wondered why a city would two AF bases so close to each other. Good luck with the crowds!

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

With its two Pratt & Whitney F119 engines vectoring their 35,000lb of afterburning thrust through +/-20º as an integral part of the flight-control system, the F-22 proves itself to be surprisingly agile, performing helicopter turns, tailsides and backflips.

My, how times change.

When Sukhoi put TVN on their fighters, all the US fighter-jocks pooh-poohed it as unnecessary in a dogfight and how they'd love to have a Flanker try a cobra or other 3D manuever during combat.

Now that the F-22 has TVN, it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

[Vinnie]

Going to Wings Over Pittsburgh weekend after next.
Hope it’s there, but I don’t think so. :^(

Can you imagine an adversary trying to get one in its gunsite?

[CharlesWayneCT]

In the first week of last year’s Northern Edge exercise in Alaska, for example, the F-22 achieved an unprecedented 114:0 kill ratio. “There are no leakers,” says Lawson. The F-22 has the ability to re-engage and defeat them before they can engage.”

Cool.

[ravingnutter]

Don’t know about Roswell, but the company I work for designs/upgrades/tests the Anti-G suits for the pilots. My boss was at an aeromedical Raptor working group at Langley last week.