They just did a "Fly over" at the Daytona 500 with two F22A jets! WTF?

[Up2Late]

Good to see our newest and most expensive fighter jets, which I don't believe are even officially deployed yet, doing something so important! :crazy: :wtf:

Anyone else have a problem with this?

Or have more info about the status of the F22A Raptor?

[unblock]

1. an al qaeda operative might be in the crowd taking notes!

shhhh!

[Captain Hilts]

2. No. It's a recruiting tool for the 200K+ in the stands and watching on TV

I am surprised it was the F22.

[Up2Late]

11. Do you have any idea how many F22A's have been delivers so far?

I live in the town where they are made, but they don't tell us that sort of thing.

[Kukesa]

27. There are 23 operational at present. nt

[Gman]

12. Recruiting AND Get Out The Vote

for the GOP

[Marie26]

24. Yep

Like people will think "Ain't that cool? I'm going to sign up to be shipped to Iraq right now!" They actually have recruiting stations at NASCAR events now.

[XOKCowboy]

3. They probably didn't have to fly too far to get there...

Florida has a lot of AF bases. Hey at least the had Bon Jovi this year instead of Hank Jr, Toby Kieth or Charley Daniels.

[TomInTib]

4. And who paid for it? Not the France family, I guarantee.

Wait until Toyota and Honda get in this next year.

[Captain Hilts]

21. Mitsubishis will do the flyover! nt

[northofdenali]

28. Mitsubishi actually could......... they were the folks who

built the Japanese Zero in WWII:



It took the US about 2 years to catch up to them on the design. The first Zero that was captured in workable form was in 1942 (I think) and was recovered from a crash in the Aleutian Islands.

Sorry to go off-subject, but this is a hubby-hobby and I just remembered it.

His first thoughts on the F22 @ Daytona? Raw, raw, raw, go US Morans!!

[Captain Hilts]

30. Yes, that's the joke. Mitsubishi DID make planes. nt

[Up2Late]

33. Mitsubishi does (did) make a fighter jet, the F-1...

...which is a modified T-2, and Kawasaki made a trainer too, the T-4, Info at the link below:

<http://www.vectorsite.net/avt2_f1.html>

[baldguy]

5. One of the 14 Characteristics of Fascism

Supremacy of the Military
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

http://www.veteransforpeace.org/The_14_characteristics_030303.htm

[Mnemosyne]

17. Thanks baldguy! I think I almost have

these memorized now.

How sad.

:hi:

V

[BR_Parkway]

6. Shrub's numbers are dropping, of course they had a flyover to

pump up the jingoism.

[Captain Hilts]

19. They've done this for years. It's not new to W. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. NASCAR? A PR op, nothing else.

Of course, if any commercial flyer flew overhead, they'd lose their pilot's license.
Even worse, what if they flew a Impeach Him Now banner? They'd probably be shot out of the sky.

[Kukesa]

Pilots have to put in their time no matter where they fly. nt

[SpiralHawk]

8. Your tax dollars at work

Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, matey*


*This principle applies only to Proles, and does not apply at all to the Have More, the "Elites," or those loveable, cuddly Kool-aid Drinkers who have Assumed the Position for BushCo.

[KharmaTrain]

9. Didn't Asshat Fly AF1 Around It One Year?

Where else could you find as many Repgnicans, Bushbots and possible Iraq fodder all in one place. Waive that flag...start your engines...

[ewagner]

10. Demonstration flight

to prove they can fly for 15 minutes or more without breaking down :evilgrin:

[Captain Hilts]

23. "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the Air Force."

An old military joke.

Still has a lot of truth in it.

[ewagner]

25. Ouch!

Former Air Force here....Strategic Air Command....although I was a fighting keyboardist....:rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

26. Dad helped defeat Hitler with a typewriter.

Before he went into the sub service and chased Ivan.

But, let's be honest, too many officers, clean fingernails and MBAs in the Air Force!

[Canuckistanian]

13. Oh, but it is important

PR, spin, photo-ops, revenge and recruitment stunts.

That's Bushco in a nutshell.

[adriennui]

14. i do

was the chimp at daytona?

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Where were the jets on 9/11/01?

Where was NORAD?

[Traveling_Home]

16. First USAF's F22s went active in Jan '06 n/t

[Captain Hilts]

18. Now, I think it's silly USNA football NEVER "plays w/o air cover."

A flyover before EVERY game, home or road? Silly and expensive.

[applegrove]

20. Marketing!

[kenny blankenship]

22. Get the public pumped up about the new model year

oh boy, just wait until we use those to drop next-gen nuclear bunker busters on some brown people. I get goosepimples!

Maybe...by this time next year?

[area51]

29. "`Fly over' at the Daytona 500 with two F22A jets"

There go our wasted tax $$ that could've paid for universal healthcare. </rant>

[izzybeans]

31. Flexing the Nascar penis.

That's all. Money is no obstacle for stirring up some nationalistic irrationalism. Whatever it takes right? :sarcasm:

[0007]

32. Is this a traditional thingie?

[Up2Late]

36. Not sure, I stopped watching NASCAR after Dale Earnhardt faked his death.

...at the 2000 Daytona 500.

I don't remember them doing it back in a Pre-9/11 world.

[cherokeeprogressive]

38. You used to watch NASCAR? How red-state is that?

You watched NASCAR in 2000 and before, and can't say whether or not military planes fly over NASCAR events? I guess you'd be one of those people then who turn off the TV when they play the "National Anthem" then huh? Maybe you're not as red-state as you seem.

Your post implies though that you used to be a fan... Most here would ridicule you for that fact alone. I'm surprised you'd admit it.

[Up2Late]

39. Yes, but I'm a Jeff Gordon fan, so even most NASCAR fans hate me too.

I call my Jeff Gordon T-shirt my Alabama Camouflage.

I ware it when I drive from the Atlanta metro, through Alabama, on my way to Destin, Florida. Don't want them to know I'm a "city-boy." :evilgrin:

[sierrajim]

34. As long as the sponsors PAYED for all costs involved

I see no problem with this, but if you use taxpayers money just to fuck it off thats another thing. And for deployment date "DATE DEPLOYED: OPERATIONAL 2004/2005". http://combatindex.com/hardware/detail/air/f-22.html

[kiraboo]

35. Last year there was a flyover of some sort of jets on the 4th of

July. I found it offensive, and apparently so did many people around me. We eyed one another, and when one older gentleman commented, "There it is, our tax dollars at work!" there was a lot of nodding and affirmative grunts.

[sierrajim]

37. OMFG I didn't know how much these fuckers cost

UNIT COST: EST. $92,400,000 :mad:
http://combatindex.com/hardware/detail/air/f-22.html

[Up2Late]

40. But that's w/o Shipping, that's what kills ya...or maybe I should...

...re-phase that.

I don't think that price include kick-backs.:evilgrin: