F-22 Supermanouverability

Montage of clips of the F-22 airshow demo including cobras, backflips, super-high-alpha flight, the Raptor hovering with its nose pointed straight up, some super-fast pitch-ups, and some "vapor" (sonic shock condensation cones and wingtip vortex contrails) at the very end. Sweet, sweet stuff.

As we know, the F-22 is pretty much invisible in the battlefield (in simulated wargames, F-22 pilots always kill everyone else before being detected), has the fastest cruise speed of any airplane currently flying (MACH 1.5-1.75 depending on whom you ask), is powerful enough to break the sound barrier while flying straight up in a vertical climb while fully loaded, and is extremely advanced in how it manages, shares, and integrates information and presents it to the pilot. This weekend, the USAF has allowed one more thing about the F-22 to be shown to the public: its maneuvering capabilities. This video is a montage of clips from the F-22's first full tactical airshow demo (performed in Langley this weekend by Major Paul Moga) plus a few other F-22 clips from YouTube. I don't think I need to tell you that no American fighter has ever enabled a pilot to do these kinds of aerobatics:

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[joe r]

lol... you guys have nothing to steal...china has been trying to join the arms race for years u.s.a and russia are undoubtly the war powers of the world china just has alot of people..idk maybe u guys fuck like rabbits i know u live close together like animals

[BoxyTheSpaceDog]

If this is super-maneuverability,what';s than Mig-29 Ovt/Mig-35,Su-30 Mk,Su-35???

[archangle117]

@em745a bit[dot]ly/b57MDF I'll admit I haven't read it all the way through, don't really have that much time on my hands atm.

[em745a]

You can shorten the link at bitly[dot]com and post THAT.

(Remove the "h t t p : / /" and put a space after the dot.)

But I doubt it'll make a difference.

An Apache helicopter is "maneuverable."

An F-16 is "agile."

[archangle117]

@em745a just tryed sending you a link for a very useful pdf file but you seem to have contact block enabled any other way i can send it?

[em745a]

In aeronautical terms:

Agility: the ability of a plane to change its spatial position in the air within a certain time frame. Key agility parameters: thrust/weight (acceleration), sustained turn rate, energy bleed rate, lift.

Maneuverability: the ability of a plane to change the direction its nose is pointing, without necessarily changing its spatial position, again, within a certain time frame. Key maneuverability parameters: AoA ability, roll/pitch/yaw rates, instantaneous turn rate.

[archangle117]

@em745a agility refers to how fast something changes direction ie a human is more agile than a ford F-150. Maneuverability is how well the object is able to change and its ability to sustain that maneuver.

[em745a]

-"SU and mig fighters are good with agility but not maneuverability."

The other way around, methinks. ;)

[archangle117]

@ANDREY SPETZNAZ you will find that in the world of aerospace Agility and maneuverability are two diffrent things. at airshows it is primarily agility that is displayed not maneuverability, SU and mig fighters are good with agility but not maneuverability. The F-22 is recorded to be the best at maneuverability and seems to be in the top 5 for agility.

[SEAL52]

those planes don't have half the precision this one has. they're also beautiful tho...

[Abhishek Singh]

no stall?

[andytothesky]

I consider it similar, if not the same. There is just a lot more hype about useless airshow moves like these, because the Russians are more famous for doing them. The F-22 can do them it's just not as well known.