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Thursday, July 21, 2011

F-22 pilots try to keep their edge during grounding

F-22 RaptotSo you’re the absolute cream of the fighter-pilot crop, you’ve got the most badass jet in the sky — but you can’t fly it. What then?

That is the situation in which the Air Force’s F-22 pilots have found themselves, but according to reporter Hugh Lessig of the Daily Press newspaper, they’re trying to make the best of it.

Lessig went out to Langley AFB, Va., home of Air Combat Command and the famous 1st Fighter Wing, to see how the pilots and crews are doing while the Air Force tries to figure out how to make their airplanes flyable again.

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