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Subject: [Leica] F-22 Raptor Video/ Wild Russian flyer
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Sat Oct 6 00:40:43 2007
References: <BAY113-F2821C2CDBE75E473BA32E38CA90@phx.gbl> <4706B783.8090102@gmx.de>

Well, it looks like the Russians are not lagging behind... This and the 
Raptor and the JSF seem to have quite similar capabilities.
All the best!
Raimo K
Personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@gmx.de>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] F-22 Raptor Video/ Wild Russian flyer


> If you want to see something that looks impossible in the air, take a look 
> at this Sukhoi Berkut
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY0t_mPv6I4
>
> I keep expecting it to fly backwards - vectored thrust is really 
> something.
> Douglas
>
> Vick Ko wrote:
>> Even more impressive is the JSF fighter.
>>
>> Go onto www.youtube.com, and look for videos as it takes off and lands 
>> vertically, and how the engine works.  I watched a Nova TV show on its 
>> competition between Lockheed and Boeing, and sat there in awe and wished 
>> I were American, so that I could work on the project.
>>
>> ....Vick
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) ([Leica] F-22 Raptor Video)
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