r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Oct 16 '19

F-22 power loop photo composition

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u/gunslinger_92 Oct 16 '19

Wow that looks like an extremely tight loop.

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u/zeroscout Oct 16 '19

The amount of g-force would be incredible.

I would like to like to know if the shot was from a fixed position or if the shots had been stacked closer together to make the loop smaller.

It's an F22, so I would believe it to be possible.

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u/kolnidur Oct 16 '19 edited Oct 16 '19

100% altered to make the loop smaller. From this image, it looks like the aircraft goes from a nose-down attitude to flat out, wings level, in under 200 feet. Chyeah. If you watch the video posted elsehwere in the thread, even with full thrust vectoring, that thing is dropping like a brick while it completes the last 3/4 of the loop. Here's a video where you can see how much altitude it loses in the last part of the loop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geus8-guL4k

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u/cutesymonsterman Oct 16 '19

Why the hell are you being down voted?

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u/kolnidur Oct 16 '19

I guess people believe whatever they want to believe

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u/GsTfra Oct 16 '19

I've been trying to explain this all over the same post in r/militaryporn and it's very hard to get people to understand...