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    The F-22 Raptor was developed to counter a growing threat during the cold war. However as hostilities subsided the need for this aircraft went away according to some. To others there's still a great need for this aircraft. Moving beyond the drama and focusing on the facts, the F-22 Raptor isn't something to scoff at and we'll quickly explain this aircraft history in this presentation.  

     

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    Okay I've seen the charts before but this video really helps put things into perspective. What's your favorite fictional air or space craft? Not going to lie, some of these are much smaller than I thought they'd be and others a larger than I thought they'd be as well.

     

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    Hello,

    Some of you may know I have this little project called Quick Aircraft Facts where a particular aircraft is featured in 3 minutes or less. I would like to do one about the F-14 Tomcat; however, DVIDS, the source for Defense Video Imagery released on a Public Domain license, doesn't have a lot of F-14 Video. I did find an archives that had F-14 video but they wanted to charge me $30/per second (which equates to $2,700). Since I'm no where near the 1k sub mark on YouTube I am not going to see any kind of funding at all. Let's face it you can zoom in and zoom out on still images for so long.

    So my thoughts are this. I can use what little video I'm able to find of the F-14, some still images, and I'm wondering if anyone here has DCS F-14 module and would like to share some video you took. Full credits to you, and links to your website and YouTube channel.

    If you're interested here's what I'm looking for.

    1 carrier launch and 1 landing  (in cockpit or external .. either one will be great)

    In flight action, either flying around, engaging targets, or both. (again up to you if you want to show internal or external)

    Oh speaking of engaging targets if you're able to get air to ground action for the later variants I'll include that snippet about them too.

    Firing of the AIM-54 Phoenix missile. (If possible I'd like an external view)

    Whatever in cockpit or external shots you'd like to include I"ll try to get them in there.

    And the sweep wings in action (I think my other video I have will show this but I'd like to have another clip)

    I'll happily work with whatever you send. Also please let me know the name you'd like to have shown in the credits.  Clips are going to be short; however, you can send long videos if you'd like and I'll snip what will fit with the QAF presentation.

     

    I'm also thinking about doing another series where I'll chat about aircraft with your permission I can feature your F-14 footage again there too and really go into details that would be skipped over or crammed into a nutshell in QAF.

     

    Thank you for your time.

     

     

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    Link to story: https://time.com/5865985/madeline-swegle-first-black-female-fighter-pilot/

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    A U.S. Naval officer made history last week as the military branch’s first known Black female tactical jet pilot.

    Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle made a final flight on a T-45C Goshawk training aircraft to complete her undergraduate Tactical Air (Strike) pilot training syllabus on Tuesday, the Navy said. Swegle, who is assigned to the Redhawks of Training Squadron (VT) 21 at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, is set to receive her Wings of Gold in a ceremony on July 31.

    “Swegle is the @USNavy’s first known Black female TACAIR pilot and will receive her Wings of Gold later this month. HOOYAH!” the Chief of Naval Air Training wrote on Twitter, wishing her “BZ,” short for “Bravo Zulu,” the naval signal meaning “well done.”

    Public figures from Sen. Elizabeth Warren to tennis great Billie Jean King congratulated Swegle on social media after the announcement. RDML Paula Dunn, the U.S. Navy’s vice chief of information, celebrated Swegle’s accomplishment on Twitter.

    Swegle follows in the footsteps of trailblazers like Brenda Robinson, who is thought to be the first Black female aviator in the Navy. Women have served on U.S. combatant ships since 1994. However, the Navy has faced criticism for the lack of diversity amongst its pilots.

    As of 2018, only about 2.7% of pilots in Navy maritime squadrons were Black, according to analysis by Military.com; less than 7% of all Navy pilots were female, according to Pensacola News Journal.

     

    Viper here ... isn't that interesting that on the other site you have a whole lot of scrolling for just a couple of paragraphs?

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    @Nightshade/PR

    You're awesome thank you so much!

    @Wrench

    That's it! That's the show I remember seeing back in the day when History Channel talked about history.

     

    I was talking to someone about this aircraft and they thought I was yanking their chain. I must've searching for the wrong thing but I knew the folks here would have the answer. So thank you both. I loved watching that show back in the day and seeing all of the neat things they came up with. Now today I'm sure it would be how aliens influenced their technological development.

     

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    Does anyone remember a show that used to be featured on either Discovery or History channel that talked about the crazy inventions that were developed during WW2? What was the Soviet plane that could be submerged underwater? They never went with full production because the plane could be picked off by submarines easily. I just remember it had that ability to sneak past defenses and then pop up somewhere and take off.

     

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