F22 crashes in arizona desert

SteamWake · 03-25-09, 03:02 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510588,00.html

Thats one expensive mishap.

Max2147 · 03-25-09, 03:03 PM

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=149785

No word yet on the pilot.

SUBMAN1 · 03-25-09, 08:45 PM

Pilot is dead. I'm guessing G-Lock.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...ZN9sAD975DD080

-S

Freiwillige · 03-25-09, 09:29 PM

It happened in California, not Arizona. I saw the F-22 do a flight demonstration this past weekend during Luke days held bi annually at Luke Airforce base just outside of Phoenix Az. That aircraft is phenominal to say the least and it could run circles around F-15's and F-16's in close combat due to its thrust vectoring nozzles. The stuff I saw that aircraft doing was just freekishly unatural . it could pitch up, stall out the airframe, then using thrust vectoring spin the nose around its center axis to gain a firing solution on any menouvering target before using its massive thrust to launch itself forward out of the stall situaton.

F-15 pilots had this to say during a mock dogfight with the raptor.

It was the most frustraiting experiance of my life. You have this multi million dollar weapons sytem in the F-15 and you cannot point it at your opponent! You could be looking right thru his canopy and staring at the guy piloting the F-22 and your radar still couldnt lock onto them.

The odds were stacked in the F-15's favor, 8 Eagles vs 1 F-22. All 8 F-15's were shot down.

03-25-09, 03:02 PM	#1
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	F22 crashes in arizona desert http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510588,00.html Thats one expensive mishap. __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648

03-25-09, 08:45 PM	#3
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Pilot is dead. I'm guessing G-Lock. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...ZN9sAD975DD080 -S __________________

03-25-09, 03:03 PM	#2
Max2147 Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 714 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=149785 No word yet on the pilot.

03-25-09, 09:29 PM	#4
Freiwillige The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Phx. Az Posts: 1,458 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	It happened in California, not Arizona. I saw the F-22 do a flight demonstration this past weekend during Luke days held bi annually at Luke Airforce base just outside of Phoenix Az. That aircraft is phenominal to say the least and it could run circles around F-15's and F-16's in close combat due to its thrust vectoring nozzles. The stuff I saw that aircraft doing was just freekishly unatural . it could pitch up, stall out the airframe, then using thrust vectoring spin the nose around its center axis to gain a firing solution on any menouvering target before using its massive thrust to launch itself forward out of the stall situaton. F-15 pilots had this to say during a mock dogfight with the raptor. It was the most frustraiting experiance of my life. You have this multi million dollar weapons sytem in the F-15 and you cannot point it at your opponent! You could be looking right thru his canopy and staring at the guy piloting the F-22 and your radar still couldnt lock onto them. The odds were stacked in the F-15's favor, 8 Eagles vs 1 F-22. All 8 F-15's were shot down.