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The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is an American twin-engine, all-weather, supersonic stealth fighter aircraft.As a product of the United States Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program, the aircraft was designed as an air superiority fighter, but also incorporates ground attack, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence capabilities.
Flight testing for the F-22 continued until 2005, and on 15 December 2005 the USAF announced that the Raptor had reached its initial operational capability (IOC); with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Department of Defense focused on counterinsurgency at that time, F-22 production only reached 195 aircraft and ended in 2011. [67] [68]
22/21 Reconditioned F.2b Bristol F.2b Fighter: 1/22 Passenger Aeroplane Vickers Type 170 Vanguard: 2/22 Amphibians for use in the Middle East Vickers Viking V [2] 3/22 Two-seat fighter/reconnaissance powered by a supercharged engine – Bristol Fighter replacement Bristol Type 84 Bloodhound: 4/22 Reconditioning of DH.10 Airco DH.10 Amiens: 5/22 ...
a=chord, b=thickness, thickness-to-chord ratio = b/a The F-104 wing has a very low thickness-to-chord ratio of 3.36%. In aeronautics, the thickness-to-chord ratio, sometimes simply chord ratio or thickness ratio, compares the maximum vertical thickness of a wing to its chord.
In order to fly the F-22, Larson said he had to go through basic pilot training, consisting of 55 weeks of flying in trainer aircraft like the T-6 Texan II and a T-38 Talon.
The production engines were fitted on the production F-22, and were first flown on the F-22's maiden flight on 7 September 1997. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] A total of 507 engines were produced. [ 10 ] The F119 Heavy Maintenance Center (HMC) for depot overhaul is located at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, with the first overall completed in 2013.
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