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no_name said:

What is that small opened hole midway of the aircraft behind the cockpit for?

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no_name said:

What is that small opened hole midway of the aircraft behind the cockpit for?[/QUOT


Petrol Baby, Motion Lotion, Juice! On a real fifth gen, we like to cover the gas cap, I'd hate to think those doors would ICE UP? Prolly heated, I guess the Raptors fuel does do some cooling around the bird, can you boys say "Fill er up"!

Actually the Raptors horizontal stabs remind me of a sea lion or some other living thing, to watch her do a tailslide is Jaw Dropping, to watch it falling backward vertically and see those babies flipping all over the place to keep her standing on her tail, Yes I know its the TVC, for you experts, but it is Kool. No Hyper, thanks for calling me here bro, I really better go get some glasses!

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no_name said:

What is that small opened hole midway of the aircraft behind the cockpit for?

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Hyperwarp said:

Oh My

Goodness!

PS: Unlike the good old USAF F-15,F-16 & USN F-14,F/A-18 days there is a big gap between the USAF and USN airpower with the N-ATF cancellation.

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Air Force Foresaw Fatal F-22 Problems; Rejected $100,000 Fix As Too Expensive
Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 28, @03:06PM
from the ounce-of-prevention dept.

McGruber writes

"The Associated Press is reporting that years before F-22 stealth fighter pilots began getting dizzy in the cockpit, before one struggled to breathe as he tried to pull out of a fatal crash, before two more went on the '60 Minutes' television program to say the plane was so unsafe they refused to fly it, a small working group of U.S. Air Force experts knew something was wrong with the prized stealth fighter jet. This working group, called RAW-G, was created in 2002 at the suggestion of Daniel Wyman, then a flight surgeon at Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base, where the first F-22 squadron was being deployed. Wyman is now a brigadier general and the Air Combat Command surgeon general. RAW-G proposed a range of solutions by 2005, including adjustments to the flow of oxygen into pilot's masks. But that key recommendation was rejected by military officials reluctant to add costs to a program that was already well over budget. Kevin Divers, a former Air Force physiologist who led RAW-G until he left the service in 2007, believes the cost of adjusting the oxygen flow would have added about $100,000 to the cost of each $190 million aircraft."

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