How to nose and tail butter your F-22

**Timberridge** · 12-21-2016, 02:18 PM

**assman** · 12-21-2016, 03:38 PM

Damn, that makes an F1 car look like a Hyundai. Probably the next gen will just be drones so this type of aircraft is probably the last of the breed

**Timberridge** · 12-21-2016, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by assman

Damn, that makes an F1 car look like a Hyundai. Probably the next gen will just be drones so this type of aircraft is probably the last of the breed

Agreed. Those direction changes look like they generate about as much punishment as a human pilot can take. The loop at 1:11 was insane.

**old goat** · 12-21-2016, 07:46 PM

My kid took me for a ride in a Piper Apache. At the end of the ride he did a maneuver that pulled a few G's, whatever you can do in an Apache without the wings coming off, and I just about lost my lunch. Pretty sure I would have passed out in the F22 before the wheels left the ground.

**Rideski** · 12-21-2016, 08:01 PM

It lets out a little chemtrail at 0:30

sb · 12-21-2016, 09:14 PM

fly by wire plus thrust vectoring = badass flying

**HansJob** · 12-21-2016, 09:38 PM

dats some flippy spinny shit right there.

**BmillsSkier** · 12-21-2016, 09:55 PM

Sweet style, missed the grab a few times though. 8.9/10

Can't recall, is this the one that we stopped making or was that the F-35?

**jamal** · 12-21-2016, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Sweet style, missed the grab a few times though. 8.9/10

Can't recall, is this the one that we stopped making or was that the F-35?

Think this is the one they stopped making, F-35 is the on-going multi trillion dollar clusterfuck that can't fly worth a shit.

**reckless toboggan** · 12-21-2016, 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Sweet style, missed the grab a few times though. 8.9/10

I dunno...I mean he was kinda flailing his arms a bit.

**iceman** · 12-21-2016, 10:59 PM

The F-22's aren't cheap either, $150 million a pop.

**BmillsSkier** · 12-21-2016, 11:12 PM

Originally Posted by reckless toboggan

I dunno...I mean he was kinda flailing his arms a bit.

Candide has been known to fly.

**54-46** · 12-22-2016, 08:33 AM

Saw a pilot do this type of flying during Fleet Week in SF - it was impressive live.

**Skidog** · 12-22-2016, 08:50 AM

Pilot is still no Maverick "talk to me goose"

**Edgnar** · 12-22-2016, 11:45 AM

I always wanted to become a fighter pilot so I could drive one of those. I made different choices in life though.

**pfluffenmeister** · 12-22-2016, 06:52 PM

Nice flat spin.

**TWINS** · 12-22-2016, 07:06 PM

Sweet video. Never get tired of watching military planes do their shit.

**Skirotica** · 12-22-2016, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

The F-22's aren't cheap either, $150 million a pop.

I think two times that. $339M per my rudimentary google search. We only have 68 or 69 of them.

**iceman** · 12-22-2016, 07:20 PM

All I know is what I read on wikipedia. They say $150 mil and we have 187 of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockhe...in_F-22_Raptor

**FluffyLilKitten** · 12-22-2016, 07:38 PM

The economics of the F-22 are difficult due to the fact that they are so advanced we can't allow other countries on board to share the costs (I don't think even Britain or Canada is allowed to have them).

**lerxst** · 12-22-2016, 07:40 PM

It's way more impressive in person. When it comes over your head about 300 feet off the deck you can feel every molecule in your body vibrate. Hope to catch it again next summer.

**FluffyLilKitten** · 12-22-2016, 07:48 PM

Should be noted that none of these maneuvers really even matter. Close in dogfights are incredibly rare. The F-22's air superiority comes from the fact that it can shoot down planes 150km away while every other plane in the world has at best a 50km range on the F-22 due to the fact that it can't be detected.

**BmillsSkier** · 12-22-2016, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by lerxst

It's way more impressive in person. When it comes over your head about 300 feet off the deck you can feel every molecule in your body vibrate. Hope to catch it again next summer.

I'll say. 4 F-35's did a couple of very low passes over us while on a sailboat in the middle of Lake Erie.

I was completely awestruck. Just shook everything to its core.

**FluffyLilKitten** · 12-22-2016, 08:13 PM

Sometimes the F-22's practice over Vegas here. I used to live in Orlando, I swear those F-22's can go from floor to ceiling quicker than even our space rockets. And to see it in formation is pretty cool.