Aviation Specials — F-22 Raptor (2017)

CELEBRATING THE (^) WORLD’S GREATEST FIGHTER AIRCRAFT DEVELOPMENT FLIGHT TEST DISPLAYING THE RAPTOR COMBAT OPS IN ASSOCIAT ...

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4 F-22 RAPTOR — 20 YEARS OF AIR DOMINANCE This bookazine marks 20 years since the  rst  ight of the F-22A. Author of this publ ...

Jamie Hunter wishes to thank the following people for their assistance in producing this magazine. Col Christopher Niemi, Col Pe ...

Unlike the F-15 Eagle, the F-22 hasn’t been in an air-to-air shooting war. Some would argue that this is testament to its prowes ...

S TANDING IN AWE, watching a US Air Force F-22 Raptor air display in 2017, you’d be forgiven for forgetting the troubled origins ...

YF-22 PAV-1, serial N22YF, seen flying near Edwards AFB during the demonstration and validation fly-off. All photos Lockheed Mar ...

The USAF ordered studies to look at both air-to-air and air-to-ground roles for the ATF, to assess if a single platform could ef ...

‘The upgraded requirements forced engineers at General Dynamics to again reconsider twin tails in a variety of locations, includ ...

Dave Ferguson, as it  ew from Palmdale to Edwards AFB to enter the  y-o. The  rst YF-22 (PAV-1) was powered by two General E ...

‘THE AIR FORCE INTENTIONALLY SEPARATED THE TWO TEAMS PHYSICALLY IN THE SENSE THAT WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH O ...

‘We called it ‘The Yeager e ect’. In his book, Chuck Yeager talks about getting into an argument in his squadron about what was ...

your lethality. It was this data that decided what warranted us putting money into. Our ATF simulator runs each lasted  ve or s ...

Left top to bottom: An AIM-120A AMRAAM is test fired over the Point Mugu range, under the watchful eye of an F-15D photo chase. ...

First prototype, N22YF, rolled out at Palmdale August 29, 1990. First flight September 29, 1990. First air-to-air refuelling Oc ...

A VARIETY OF FACTORS stemming from the YF- DEM/VAL phase of the ATF programme had already introduced delays — not least plenty o ...

1995 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report highlighted concurrency in the F-22 as a major developmental risk. However, m ...

With very few major snags, only budgetary restrictions delayed the F- initially, moving the  rst  ight from 1995 back to May 1 ...

(CDR) completed in February 1995 when Con guration 645 was  nalised. The CDR of the F-22 and the Initial Production Readiness ...

Above left: Raptor 4001 on its maiden  ight from Marietta, Georgia. Paul Metz reported excellent handling and remarked on the a ...