Can it land on a beach in Baja? That would be amazing...

You just get it standing on it's tail right above the beach and hit EJECT

Just make one low pass at 80 knots to blow all those driftwood logs and hippie surfers out of the way and the beach is yours.

I saw the Raptor at the Nellis airshow. It flies like a UFO. Unbelievable what you can do with an airplane that seems to be cranking out the same power as an aircraft carrier.

And think about this...the show that you & I see is nothing near what it is capable of. The show we see is what has been approved by the military and FAA as safe to demonstrate 100% of the time at low altitude in an aishow environment...that is according to "Max" Moga who is / was a Raptor demo pilot.

lowflybye wrote:And think about this...the show that you & I see is nothing near what it is capable of. The show we see is what has been approved by the military and FAA as safe to demonstrate 100% of the time at low altitude in an aishow environment...that is according to "Max" Moga who is / was a Raptor demo pilot.

Maybe we can get a Raptor to come out to the Austin Fly In to really show us what it's capable of doing????

Two months ago we had James E. Brown, senior factory flight test pilot on the F-22 as the monthly speaker at our EAA chapter. He gave us some very interesting info on this airplane, its capabilities, mission profiles, etc.

The best comment he made was a brilliant sound bite as good as any ad agency in the world could come up with...

"No airplane from this planet can fly without the permission of the F-22"

Best of all, it's on our side!