Friday, May 17, 2013
"Bird of Prey"
Sgt. Matthew Bates includes this in his story on the Airman Magazine website:
“The F-22 is definitely a dual-role airplane,' Robbins said. “'Nothing can match it in the air, and nothing can see it from the ground, which makes it very good at destroying ground targets and weapon systems.' "Weapons and engines aside, the feature many pilots identify as the F-22’s most amazing is its maneuverability. Its design, advanced flight controls, integrated avionics and thrust-vectoring capability combine to give the Raptor the ability to perform once impossible aerial maneuvers. It can climb, spin, roll, fall and loop faster, tighter and more smoothly than any other fighter in the world."
