CoolPix: Sun-n-Fun Heat Wave - F-22 Raptor Style!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 09:37PM 
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I posted this F-22 Raptor pic as a small version just a few days back in a Sun-n-Fun pic stream, but it's so awesome that I just had to let you see it in a big CoolPix version. The heat waves not only represent the power of the two big Pratt & Whitney F119 engines, they also do some cool things distortion wise with the fuselage and the background off in the distance. The best part to me tho is looking up inside the tailpipes and actually seeing the engines inside.
I must admit that the standard camera exposure didn't cause this to happen naturally, it took a tiny tweak in photoshop to bring out the shadowy area, but it's all real, no trickery here. This is also the start up of the F-22 flight that was cut short on Saturday due to some sort of systems failure. I wasn't able to find any definitive info on what actually happened, but fortunately the Raptor was able to land without trouble. The flight demo on Sunday went as planned, but I'm pretty sure it was the other of the two F-22's that made the trip to SNF.
Once the damaging storm of Thursday past, the weather for Friday, Saturday and Sunday was actually very nice. No heat wave tho, temps were just about perfect... you had to turn to the F-22 tailpipe for the real heat wave!
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