** F-22 Raptor

* 2005 – Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.

Some of the most expensive fighters such as the F-14 Tomcat, F-22 Raptor and F-15 Eagle were employed as all-weather interceptors as well as air superiority fighter aircraft, while commonly developing air-to-ground roles late in their careers.

A Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor | F-22 Raptor fires an AIM-120 AMRAAM

* 1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.

Several fixed-wing aircraft | aircraft wing planform shapes: a swept wing KC-10 Extender ( top ) air-to-air refueling | refuel s a trapezoidal-wing F-22 Raptor fighter plane

Although the rule still applies, the visible fuselage " waisting " can only be seen on a few aircraft, such as the B-1B Lancer, Learjet 60, and the Tupolev Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' — the same effect is now achieved by careful positioning of aircraft components, like the boosters and cargo bay on rockets ; the jet engines in front of ( and not directly below ) the wings of the Airbus A380 ; the jet engines behind ( and not purely at the side of ) the fuselage of a Cessna Citation X ; the shape and location of the canopy on the F-22 Raptor ; and the image of the Airbus A380 above showing obvious area rule shaping at the wing root, which is practically invisible from any other angle.

* September 7 – The F-22 Raptor makes its first test flight.

A lighter version of the Vulcan developed for use on the F-22 Raptor, the M61A2, is mechanically the same as the M61A1, but with thinner barrels to reduce overall weight to.

* 1991: Lockheed, General Dynamics and Boeing begin development of the F-22 Raptor.

* F-22 Raptor, air superiority stealth fighter

Pratt & Whitney military engines include the F135 for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ), the F119 for the F-22 Raptor, the F100 family that powers the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Falcon, the F117 for the C-17 Globemaster III, the J52 for the EA-6B Prowler, the TF33 powering E-3 AWACS, E-8 Joint STARS, B-52, and KC-135 aircraft, and the TF30 for the F-111.

Examples of air superiority fighters include the F-22 Raptor and the MiG-29.

Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-22 Raptor.

* F-22 Raptor

Control can be provided by vectored thrust as well as a rolling stabilator ( or taileron ), and the enhanced manoeuvering capability by flights at very high angles of attack can provide a tactical advantage for military fighters such as the F-22 Raptor.

* F-22 Raptor, a United States Air Force stealth fighter aircraft

The base was selected as the first home of the Air Force's newest aircraft, the F-22 Raptor.

The 49 FTS and 435 FTS conducted an advanced pilot training and the Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals ( IFF ) course for recently winged USAF Navigator / Combat Systems Officers en route to Weapons System Officer ( WSO ) assignments in the F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft and recently winged pilots en route to the F-22 Raptor, F-15C / D Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, and A-10 Thunderbolt II.

An F-22 Raptor landing at Elmendorf AFB, demonstrating aerodynamic braking.

Among other unique airplanes that have recently appeared at Oshkosh were the Airbus " Beluga " in 2003, the F-22 Raptor in 2006, 2007, and 2008, the V-22 Osprey in 2008 and 2010, NASA's Super Guppy in 2000, the B-2 Spirit in 2007, the C-5 Galaxy in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012.

The F-22 Raptor was designated " F / A-22 " for two years from 2003-2005 before being redesignated F-22 immediately before being transitioned to active service status.

Tachyon was developed by Randy Casey, who had previously written two other titles for Novalogic: F-22 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor.

The AMRAAM is also usable by a wide variety of fighter planes, including the F-4, F-15, F-16, F-18, F-22, Panavia Tornado, Eurofighter Typhoon, F-35 Lightning II, Swedish-made fighters, and ground-based launchers of the U. S. Army.

( e. g. Sopwith Camel, A6M Zero, F-15, MiG-29, Su-27, and F-22 ).

Additionally, wing personnel manage the southeastern air combat maneuvering instrumentation range and provide mission-ready F-15, F-16 and F-22 air dominance forces in support of the Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD )/ First Air Force contingency plans.

The U. S. explored fitting the technology to the F-16 and the F-15, but only introduced it on the F-22 Raptor.

The supermaneuverable F-22 Raptor can stand on its steerable nozzles at less than 100 knots airspeed, yet quickly maneuver to bring its M-61 Vulcan cannon to bear on a nearby evasive target, while an F-15 Eagle is more likely to use its thrust to maintain its relatively high corner speed, working to counter the drag caused by tight turns.

USAF fighters, such as the F-15 and F-16, tend to favor higher speeds, because of their emphasis on high power-to-weight ratio and low wing-loading ; although the F-22 has supermaneuverability with its own vectored thrust.

The flying organizations within Tenth Air Force include fighter units equipped with the F-16 ( Fighting Falcon ) and A-10 ( Thunderbolt II ); fighter associate program detachments equipped with the F-15 ( Eagle ) and F-16 ; associate flying training units equipped with the F-22 ( Raptor ); associate units flying Predator, Reaper and Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ; air rescue units equipped with the HC-130 ( Hercules ) and the HH-60 ( Pave Hawk ) helicopter ; a bomb wing equipped with the B-52 ( Stratofortress ); an airborne warning and control associate unit equipped with the E-3 ( Sentry ); and a special operations unit equipped with the MC-130E ( Combat Talon ).

* El Paso, Texas ( B-1B, PAC-3, power and electronics components for ISS, F-22, and F-15, assembly and test for Minuteman III missile guidance system )

* Air Force transport planes and bombers such as the C-5 Galaxy, C-17 Globemaster, KC-135 Stratotanker and C-130 Hercules, and B-52 Stratofortress, as well as fighter aircraft such as the F-16 Falcon, F-15 Eagle and F-22 Raptor, and other support and training aircraft ;

Pilots assigned to fighter aircraft complete the introduction to fighter fundamentals course at Randolph AFB or Sheppard AFB, Texas, flying the AT-38B, and then move on to train in either the A / B or C / D versions of the F-15 Eagle or the F-22 Raptor at Tyndall AFB, Florida., or the F-16 Fighting Falcon at Luke AFB, Arizona.

His alternate mode here is that of an F-22 Raptor, the successor to his original Generation One F-15 Eagle alternate jet mode.

An F-15E Strike Eagle and an F-22 Raptor fly over the coast of Prince William Sound, Alaska.

F-22 Raptor s taxiing at Elmendorf Air Force Base | Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, USA

In 2007, tests by Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and L-3 Communications enabled the Active Electronically Scanned Array system of a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor to act like a WiFi access point, able to transmit data at 548 megabits per second and receive at gigabit speed ; this is far faster than the Link 16 system, which transfers data at just over 1 Mbit / s.

*** F-22 Total Air War, a 1998 computer game from Infogrames for Windows 95

ERAAM + would be adopted by both countries, equipping Eurofighter, JSF, and the F-22, allowing economies of scale from large U. S. procurement.

The cockpit canopy of the F-22 Raptor jet fighter is made from a piece of high optical quality polycarbonate, and is the largest piece of its type formed in the world.

Thomas DeMarse at the University of Florida used a culture of 25, 000 neurons taken from a rat's brain to fly a F-22 fighter jet aircraft simulator.

* F-22 Raptor review A review of the game from GameSpot

Other simulators, such as the F-22 series from Novalogic have been compared with Strike Commander because of their simplified flight model and emphasis on graphic detail, which makes them relatively similar in terms of philosophy.

This included the C-5, C-130 and C-141 transports as well as the F-2, F-16 ( purchased from General Dynamics ), F-117, F-22 and F-35 Lightning II.

Flying anything from a helicopter to an F-22 in a line of sight of a Tenar is suicide and hugging the ground just leaves an aircraft open to mass fire from the normals.

Sometimes in-flight refueling is needed to prevent the F-22 from crashing.

F-22 Raptors from the 1st Fighter Wing fly in formation