Half-a-Billion On the Wing

Sept. 26, 20120

Air Force photo / MSgt. Jeremy T. Lock

The Air Force’s two fifth-generation fighters – the F-22 Raptor (foreground) and the F-35 Lighting II -- flew together for the first time Sept. 19, according to Eglin Air Force Base. The pair of fighters is shown flying over the northwestern coast of Florida.

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vstillwell

The F-22 has been a colossal disaster. I feel bad for the pilots that have to fly that death trap, and I feel even worse for those that have to work with it on the ground. That plane is a toxic stew of chemicals.

bertafiable

Is it just my computer? Or was there no written aricle with the picture in this report?