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Old 25 January 2013, 02:31 AM   #1
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The F-22 May Simply Be Too Much For Pilots To Handle

HAL . . . for the pilots among us . . .

http://www.businessinsider.com/f-22-...siology-2013-1

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Old 25 January 2013, 02:47 AM   #2
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That is one of hell of a plane...
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Old 25 January 2013, 02:49 AM   #3
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A bad @ss plane but a far cry from the 172R I've flown.
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Old 25 January 2013, 02:50 AM   #4
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A bad @ss plane but a far cry from the 172R I've flown.
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Old 25 January 2013, 03:01 AM   #5
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The F-35 is a flop I think. they should have just imporved the F-22
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Old 25 January 2013, 10:23 AM   #6
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The General's thought is ill-informed methinks. The systems are affecting the pilots rather than the pilots being ineffective. The oxygen generators for example...
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Old 25 January 2013, 10:24 AM   #7
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The F-35 is a flop I think. they should have just imporved the F-22
The F-22 is still unproven in combat so hard to make that choice.
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Old 25 January 2013, 06:40 PM   #8
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Here some other beautiful pics . . .

http://www.businessinsider.com/aroun...photos-2013-1#

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Old 25 January 2013, 07:49 PM   #9
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Lovely piece of engineering but I question its usefulness in a military environment increasingly leaning towards asymmetric warfare.
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Old 25 January 2013, 10:25 PM   #10
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Well that's one way of stretching out an 'article' over 20+ pages...
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Old 26 January 2013, 02:56 AM   #11
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According to "Business Insider," no military aircraft is fully capable of flight and among those that miraculously have gotten airborne, there are no pilots who can control them.

The next thing I expect from "Business Insider" is for them to hang Billy Mitchell in effigy.
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Old 26 January 2013, 03:44 AM   #12
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Grady - you may know the intrepid Editor-CEO at BI is Henry Blodgett. Truth is an artform there and driving traffic with suppositions is paramount.
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Old 26 January 2013, 04:48 AM   #13
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I so heart this plane.
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Old 26 January 2013, 07:48 AM   #14
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According to "Business Insider," no military aircraft is fully capable of flight and among those that miraculously have gotten airborne, there are no pilots who can control them.

The next thing I expect from "Business Insider" is for them to hang Billy Mitchell in effigy.
Oh Grady Awsome piece of machinery
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Old 26 January 2013, 08:45 AM   #15
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Grady - you may know the intrepid Editor-CEO at BI is Henry Blodgett. Truth is an artform there and driving traffic with suppositions is paramount.
Oh, now I get it.

He's a Yale graduate.
























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Old 26 January 2013, 09:42 AM   #16
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Strap me into an F-22, ill be their guinea pig.
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Old 26 January 2013, 09:45 AM   #17
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Strap me into an F-22, ill be their guinea pig.
x 2 !

With pleasure . . . I can even fly for them . . .

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Old 26 January 2013, 09:59 AM   #18
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Impressive...right down to the toxic stealth paint lol. If the missils don't get ya the paint will. Thinking surely ahead of its time.
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