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despite all the tuning in the fighter, there are always some flaws. On April of 1992 the YF-22 was lost during a landing approach. They say the system software is to bame. Because of this crash they went back to the drawing boards.....they had to rethink how to make a real fighter
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In 1993 the plans for the F-22 for the Navy Advanced Tactical Fighter were dropped.
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In the mid-1990's boeing teamed up with Lockheed Martin to create the F-22 Raptor. this fighter was a replacement for the F-15. This fighter took many complications to build.
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By April 9, 1997 the first prodution of the F-22 Raptor was being reveiled. This was the first of nine planes built for flight testing. The ceremony was held by Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney. Boeing in Seattle, builds the wings and aft fuselage (including the structures necessary for engine and nozzle installation). Lockheed Martin built the forebody (nose, cockpit, body).
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In September of 1997, the first flight test came. People were very scared to see how the fighter flew. The first fighter's wing span came to about 44 feet 6 inches, it's length was 62 feet 1 inches. It only came to pass mach 2. It was powered by two Pratt and Whitney F119-PW-100 engines. Only had to have one crew member in the fighter. and testing was done on air - to - air and ground- to - ground missles.
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As of April 2005, Boeing had delivered 61 sets of wings and 66 aft-fuselages, as well as a number of integrated avionics flight-test packages and updates to Lockheed Martin. As a replacement for the F-15C, the fast, agile, stealthy F-22 was designed to take over the air superiority role with the Air Combat Command starting in 2005.
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The FB-22 bomber was about to be on the frontlines but they decided to cancel their flight. Thus giving the F\A-22 the only member of the raptor family.
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as of November of 2007, these raptor's have increased in power. From 1.5 mach now to mach 2
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during a flight testing in May of 2011, a pilots air system failed to do it's job. going into mach 2.5 the pilot didn't have his "air" to breathe putting him unconsciousness and crashing the plane.
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by today these things go fast but they want to be ablr to hit the raptor at TOP SPEED.....over 2,000 miles per hour.
