NAS Point Mugu

Post by **p51** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:00 pm

Sooo... what do you get when you have the very first public F-22 Raptor demo and a Naval base that's basically on the coast?

VAPOR
... F-22 Style.

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:03 pm

That was radical, cool groovy man.

Post by **p51** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:06 pm

Even the T-Birds has some Vapor... #6 doing his Sneaky Thing...

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:15 pm

P-51 do you have any pics of them breaking the sound barrier?

Post by **p51** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:21 pm

They can't break the sound barrier at airshows... save for Edwards AFB airshow, but that's at 30,000 feet and well out of visual range unless you have a telescope.

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:22 pm

p51 wrote:They can't break the sound barrier at airshows... save for Edwards AFB airshow, but that's at 30,000 feet and well out of visual range unless you have a telescope.

That sucks

,,,however the pics you do have are great!

STUKA · Post by **STUKA** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:56 pm

incredible photographs - thanks for posting!

:hornet:

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:16 pm

Great photographs, but that's not the first public Raptor demo

I saw one fly at the Edwards AFB airshow back in 1998, and it was an early production version

Post by **p51** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:22 pm

That was a demo fly-by flight... this was the first ever TAC demo. They just formed the 'official' F-22 demo team earlier this year.

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:55 am

Thanks for the clarification. There was a picture of an F-22 at that same airshow in my local paper today as well

KAMIKAZE · Post by **KAMIKAZE** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:03 pm

That's very cool Britt. One of my favorite aviation pictures of all time is the one of an F-18 Hornet just at the point of breaking the sound barrier. Keep taking those awesome pictures. All of us here
appreciate them very much.

Mark