USAF F-22 Raptor Demo Team

The team made its debut in March of 2007 in an air show at Tyndall Air Force Base. Over the last 16 years, they have performed more than 250 demonstrations worldwide!

The F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team is stationed at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia. Since 2007, the team has grown to 14 members including the pilot, safety officer, superintendent, team chief, crew chiefs, avionics specialists, public affairs, and aircrew flight equipment specialists.

Testing for the F-22 began in 1990, when the YF-22 and YF- 23 prototype aircraft completed their first flights to be in the running as the future 5th generation stealth fighter. The YF-22 was selected, and it formally entered service in 2005, as the F-22 Raptor. The U.S. Air Force currently maintains about 187 F-22s. In 2009, they announced the decision to end F-22 production and the last Raptor was delivered in 2012.

The Raptor combines stealth, speed, agility, situational awareness, and it is combined with lethal long-range, air-to-air and air-to-ground weaponry. Its design and technology allows it to protect itself and stay virtually undetected from enemy radar.

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

Engines: Two Pratt & Whitney F-119-PW-100 turbofan engines with afterburners and two-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzles.
Thrust: 35,000-pound class (each engine)
Wingspan: 44 feet, 6 inches
Length: 62 ft., 1 in.
Height: 16 ft., 8 in.
Weight: 43,340 lbs.
Max Takeoff Weight: 85,500 lbs.
Speed: Mach 2 with supercruise capability