{"id":48305,"date":"2022-08-16T21:55:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T19:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48305"},"modified":"2024-08-16T00:22:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T22:22:12","slug":"power-loop-the-impressive-maneuver-of-an-f-22-raptor-fighter-at-an-exhibition-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/16\/power-loop-the-impressive-maneuver-of-an-f-22-raptor-fighter-at-an-exhibition-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Loop: the impressive maneuver of an F-22 Raptor fighter at an exhibition in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, the Kaneohe Bay Air Show was held at the United States Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe Bay, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/07\/own-the-sky-a-spectacular-commercial-of-the-united-states-air-force\/\">'Own the Sky': a spectacular commercial of the United States Air Force<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/19\/the-deafening-experience-of-a-b-52-bomber-passing-a-few-meters-above-you\/\">The deafening experience of a B-52 bomber passing a few meters above you<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the highlights of that airshow was the F-22 Raptor Demo Team<\/strong>, a display fighter whose pilot manages to get the most out of this impressive plane, which is the most expensive fighter in history of aviation. <strong>There is an especially impressive maneuver called Power Loop that is characteristic of this aircraft<\/strong>, as it can do it thanks to its steerable thrust vectoring nozzles. <strong>The F-22 Raptor Demo Team itself has published the video of that moment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:20px 0 20px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s the last day of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kbayairshow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kbayairshow<\/a> and our demonstration is set for 1323 \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ojNNczBs2J\">pic.twitter.com\/ojNNczBs2J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; F-22 Demonstration Team (@F22DemoTeam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F22DemoTeam\/status\/1558903197766258688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>This maneuver consists of executing a turn with <strong>the aircraft almost \"hanging\" in the sky at the end of a climb in which the F-22 decelerates as it climbs<\/strong>. Once above, the fighter makes a tight turn on itself thanks to its steerable nozzles, something that no other aircraft can do to this extent. In the case of the Hawaii display,<strong> the maneuver was coupled with a formidable condensation trail that covered much of the fighter.<\/strong> Here you can see a video of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/AirshowStuffVideos\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AirshowStuff<\/a> in which this maneuver is best seen:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2014 Thunder over Louisville- F-22 Power Loop and Loaded Roll\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7KIwUVTwarg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, the Kaneohe Bay Air Show was held at the United States Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe Bay, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11546],"tags":[14468,17199,6274,13904,6761],"class_list":["post-48305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-aviation","tag-f-22-raptor-demo-team","tag-kaneohe-bay-air-show","tag-lockheed-martin-f-22-raptor","tag-mcas-kaneohe-bay","tag-united-states-air-force-usaf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}