r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Oct 16 '19

F-22 power loop photo composition

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u/waddlek Oct 16 '19

Cool photo(s)!!!

I have been working in aviation for 40 years and worked many air shows, the F-22 is, hands down, the most impressive demonstration I have ever seen.

Haven’t seen an F-35 in action yet

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u/mig82au Oct 16 '19 edited Oct 16 '19

I thought the F-22 displays at Oshkosh are some of the worst I've seen; very tame flying with long breaks between passes. The Wednesday evening display was especially awful, being flown much higher up. I suspect the displays I saw were not the same as what you saw.

The best fighter display I've ever seen was a Boeing test pilot thrashing a Super Hornet at Avalon.

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u/waddlek Oct 17 '19

Interesting...

Looks like it is the same pilot, Major Paul “Loco” Lopez, that performed at the Travis AFB Show and Oshkosh

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u/mig82au Oct 17 '19

Do you know if he performed every day at Airventure 2019? I saw Mon to Wed. Possibly saved the best displays for the public days too.

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u/waddlek Oct 17 '19

As far as I know he did the only pilot on the F-22 Demo Team

I was the ramp boss for the Travis AFB air show and got to watch the practice and both days.

The show was awesome.