News

F-22 Ground Crews Are Also Having Mysterious Breathing Problems

We knew the F-22 has a mysterious problem that causes breathing problems in pilots. Well, the plot is now thickening. It seems that ground crews are having hypoxia-like symptoms too and, of course, we don’t have a clue about what’s causing this.


May 2, 2012
News

F-22 Pilots Don’t Want To Fly The F-22

This isn’t exactly a grand gesture of confidence: some of the US Air Force’s airmen, the world’s most elite, want nothing to do with the Air Force’s “elite” new fighter. Why? Because the only people it’s threatening are its own pilots.


March 31, 2012
Geek Out

F-22 Failure Investigation: ‘We Have No Clue’

After spending seven months in costly research, the US Air Force scientific board investigating the F-22 life support system failure has turned in their conclusions. The findings: they have no idea about what’s going on. The USAF’s press release reads like a joke to US taxpayers.


February 17, 2012
News

F-16 Gets Upgraded To Play Nice With Modern Fighters

It’s obvious the Air Force’s new F-35 needs all the help it can get. So Lockheed Martin has just unveiled an updated version of its F-16, the F-16V, which will make the proven fighter better interoperate with the F-35 and F-22.


January 6, 2012
Science

This Is Lockheed Martin’s New Amazing Fighter

Last December, Lockheed Martin assembled the last F-22 Raptor ever. It’s the USAF’s one and only fifth-generation fighter (the F-35 is still far from being active). It has never seen combat. It spent part of its life grounded. Now they want to sell you a new one.


December 15, 2011
News

This Is The Last F-22 Raptor Ever

AK 4195. That’s the tail number of the last F-22 Raptor ever, which you can see here fully assembled and about to move into the flight line to get ready for delivery. That assembly line is now closed. Done. Forever.


November 23, 2011
News

$US7.4b Spent On Upgrading The Never-Used F-22

The F-22, America’s favourite multi-multi-multi-billion dollar gun with no trigger, is getting a new paint job! TIME’s Mark Thompson reports the fleet of unused warplanes will get one hell of an upgrade. Too bad we never use it.


October 28, 2011
Geek Out

The Sad Odyssey Of The F-22: America’s Big Broken Toy

The F-22 has been okayed to fly again, after being grounded, cleared, grounded, then cleared once more — all within a year. And yet, the Air Force hasn’t fixed the plane’s life threatening flaw. It doesn’t seem like it cares.


October 26, 2011
Geek Out

The F-22 Is Back, Baby!

That was quick! With zero explanation, The World’s Most Expensive Plane™ is back in the air, despite a persistent, possibly deadly oxygen deprivation problem. How long will the $US24,000,000,000,000 fleet stay operational? Who knows! [AFP]


September 20, 2011
Geek Out

The F-22 Is Back In The Sky! And Still Kinda Broken!

Remember when the Pentagon let the F-35 start flying again, even though its underlying defects hadn’t been fixed? They just did literally the exact same thing with the F-22 Raptor. Hope you’re not worried about oxygen deprivation.