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Originally posted by RocketScientist We were two miles from the US central maintenance hub for the entire Air Force and not a single plane was in the air...
Originally posted by RocketScientist
Fact 1: All planes were ordered grounded before Flight 93 was even a publicly known incident.
Originally posted by RocketScientist
Fact 2: Eight F22 Raptors were scrambled from Wright Patterson Air Force Base in four sets of two.
Originally posted by RocketScientist
After 30 minutes of silence, we went back up on the roof to load tools and watched these planes outrun their own sound by at least a mile while no more than 1500 feet off the ground heading East.
Originally posted by RocketScientist
QUESTION: Why would you ground all flights across the country and scramble intercept fighter jets if you were not prepared to shoot down non compliant airliners that had diverted from their course?
Originally posted by RocketScientist
Fact 2: Eight F22 Raptors were scrambled from Wright Patterson Air Force Base in four sets of two.
There were not 8 F-22's at WP in 2001! Lie # 3
Yes @$$hat, there were several DOZEN F22's at Wright Pat. The first F-22 fighter aircraft was unveiled in April 1997. They were being flown in and out of there daily, being delivered to many different locations around the world and getting new equipment tested. Wright Pat is the Central maintenance and Logistics hub for the entire Freaking US AIR FORCE. READ-> www.airforce-technology.com... THE F22 WAS Developed at Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Ever hear of Hangar 18 Flame boy? I have been inside Hangar 18. Have you? My Step Father was a Brigadier General in the USAF you flaming idiot. (At Wright Patterson AFB)
Originally posted by RocketScientist
Raptors were not the ONLY thing in the air that day when everything was supposed to be GROUNDED. There was a interceptor over the white house and one over Shanksville, two at the towers and one at the Pentagon.
Change the baseline LRIP production ramp, which would have consisted of four lots of 4, 12, 24, 36 F-22s (76 aircraft). The JET recommendation is a LRIP ramp of 2, 6, 12, 20, 30 (70 aircraft) in 5 lots.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by RocketScientist
As for testing AMRAAMs in the 1990s, a launch demonstration is not the same as guiding the missile all the way to the target.