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The F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Can Hit Mach 2
The F-22 Raptor is renowned for stealth, but its remarkable speed and acceleration are equally impressive. -Capable of ...
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How Things Work: Thrust Vectoring
NASA's F/A-18 (left) and X-31 are among the airplanes used to gather data for thrust-vectoring ... “The F119’s vectoring nozzle is integrated into the F-22 flight control system” so that ...
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The Raptor Rocks
The Raptor doesn’t disappear ... Those "ginks" are technical terms for "thrust vectoring," and the F-22 is the only operational airplane that has it. With thrust vectoring, Shower can also ...