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Old 06-07-2011, 11:36 PM
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The F-22 is no dog either...... I was parked at the north end of RWY 17 at Avalon Airport on their arrival for the airshow when they slammed their twin Pratt & Whitney F119 PW100 engines in full afterburner..... the rest is friggin history......only the B-1 with their 4x GE F101 afterbrurning turbofans came close....... and the FA/18F Superhornet with their twin F414's... WOW just put everything else to bed including the F-16's and F/18's...
The PW F119 engines only generate about 32000lbs, but with two of them, it makes up for the substantially less thrust. Imagine two F135's in a fighter plane. They've tested the F135 up to 50000lbs.
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