my wife got sent on a "deployment" up there from the 33FW in Florida for an ONE trip; it was better for the FF weaines to fly someone else in and cover their airspace, than for them to burn their flying hours. All the FF squadrons where home at the time, and the 33rd already had people out elsewhere. Politics are bull$hit.

That pic is an artist painting nothing more, it's not real. The F/A-18E/F/G uses the same flight control spoiling. ruders out, ailerons up, speed brake up, stabs up.

If you look VERY CLOSE on pic 1308975, it is just to shiny, a shine of a painting and it does not look real, everything is just too bright and crisp. Then look at the next pic, it look REAL without the shine along with the dark oil/dirt lines..

VPRGUY I'm with you on this one

I work for the company that builds the wing and othere crap on that 250mil A/C and we have the same pic on the OP's wall

ONE hours and CT hours are different pot of money.

The Air Force attributes a large portion of the shortfall to Operation Noble Eagle, the domestic combat air patrols flown since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

For the first time in three years, the Air Force has had to use its own money to pay for the missions. They had been financed through wartime supplemental funding requests separate from the service’s baseline budget.

CALHOUN thank you but do you know on that A/C the contract year?
If so you can type it in at scramble.nl and find that last known status of it or of any other A/C.

SHINY PAINT mil A/C don't like to use it because of reflection or sparkle, just look at a civi jet and you can see a shine/sparkle/reflection that's why they went from a silver A/C to a flat painted one.

I work at IDS and the only thing that fly out of our plant is F-15E/K/S, F-18E/F/G, T-45.

We don't build a single part of the f-22 but we did built most of the better F-23

FOD-- Seattle has not had much recent involving in fighter A/C till after the merger and did not really care about nor was it a MAJOR concern to them about FOD.

C-17 back at ship 1 FOD was like FOD WHATS THAT. Basically both places delt with civi A/C and had no dealings with military FOD (it does not do rolls and loops so why clean up). I was over a Douglas after the A-12, teaching them how to there own job.


It hard to rip a pic that is plasterd on the wall besides DOD security don't like that

If you look VERY CLOSE on pic 1308975, it is just to shiny, a shine of a painting and it does not look real, everything is just too bright and crisp. Then look at the next pic, it look REAL without the shine along with the dark oil/dirt lines..

OVER VIRGINIA -- Lt. Col. James Hecker flies over Fort Monroe before delivering the first operational F/A-22 Raptor to its permanent home at Langley Air Force Base, Va., on May 12. This is the first of 26 Raptors to be delivered to the 27th Fighter Squadron. The Raptor program is managed by the F/A-22 System Program Office at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Colonel Hecker is the squadron's commander. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker)