The main undercarriage is also really well modeled and detailed, with nice strut supports with detailed information labels. The movable engine exhaust (vector) vanes are well done as are the twin-engine exhaust outlets. The upper fuselage vanes can also be manually opened and controlled. That said the modeling is quite creative in areas like the forward engine inlets, and overall fuselage and wing shape is very good. I am quite disappointed here as the early T-7A had the same Lo-Res feel and AOA updated the textures in the v1.1 update, so why do it again in this their most important product to date? Worse is that the fuselage and wing detail is quite Lo-Res, the textures are 4096x4096, but not Hi-Res by the poor jaggies that are easily seen not only on the aircraft but also on the texture file. The chiselled eagle style beak looks excellent, but on closer inspection the modeling is not as curved or as sharp as it should be, you have to look for the details, but at this level you do expect almost perfect curved lines of where it counts.
There is a nice sheen to the composite panels that makes the aircraft look authentic. On every variant there is also a M61 20 mm rotary cannon placed high right above the engine intake.įirst impression are that AOA has got the look and feel of the stealth fighter very well. The AOA F22A Raptor Package comes with three variants A2A, A2G and an EFTĪ2A - MISSILE (A2A) MODE - (6) AIM-120 radar guided missile/(2) AIM-9X short range missilesĪ2G - BOMB (A2G) MODE - (2) GBU-32 1000-pound GPS guided bomb/(4) AIM-120 radar guided missile/(2) AIM-9X short range missilesĮFT - EXTERNAL FUEL TANKS (8,000 lbs) - (6) AIM-120 radar guided missile/(2) AIM-9X short range missiles
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The Raptor aircraft produced here for the X-Plane Simulator is by AOA (Angle of Attack) Simulations in conjunction with another, in the T-7A Red Hawk in the same T-X program procurement requirements, I thoroughly liked the AOA T-7A as it was a very clever aircraft and very interesting to fly, and so was excited in the release of the F22A Raptor. 195 (8 test and 187 operational aircraft) were built between 1996–2011. The aircraft F22A was designed primarily as an air superiority fighter, but it is also has ground attack, electronic warfare, and signal intelligence capabilities. It is a 5th Generation single-seat, twin-engine, all-weather stealth tactical fighter aircraft. The aircraft was variously designated F-22 and F/A-22 before it formally entered service in December 2005 as the F-22A. Personally I thought the sensational Northrop YF-23 was the better aircraft (certainly the most arresting visually), the final selection however was the Lockheed Martin YF-22, which looked bland against the YF-23. These aircraft were evaluated in 1991 and the Lockheed YF-22 was selected and later developed into the F-22 Raptor. Lockheed and Northrop were selected in 1986 to develop the YF-22 and the YF-23 technology demonstrator aircraft. The USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program, was a demonstration and validation program undertaken by the United States Air Force to develop a next-generation air superiority fighter to counter emerging worldwide threats, including Soviet Sukhoi Su-27 and Mikoyan MiG-29 fighters that were under development in the 1980s. This technique is used in other aircraft like the EA6B Prowler and the F-35.Aircraft Review : Lockheed Martin F22A Raptor by AOA Simulations Applying such transparent conducting film enables, while maintaining transparency to visible radiation, both a radio wave stealth property which scatters radio waves in various directions so as not to be detected by radar, and an electromagnetic wave shield property which prevents harmful electromagnetic waves, except for visible radiation, from invasion into an aircraft. From :Ī window member composed of a transparent resin or inorganic glass with a transparent conducting film such as gold or ITO (indium tin oxide) coated thereon, is used as an electromagnetic wave shield window for stealth aircraft. They are used in stealth aircraft to reduce the RCS. A metallic coating of indium-tin-oxide is added to the canopy to reflect the radar waves, giving it a golden tint. comprises two sheets of polycarbonate, sandwiched between two layers of optical glass, fusion bonded in an autoclave and drape formed over a canopy blank.
In order to reduce the radar cross section (RCS) of the aircraft, the F22 canopies are coated with a thin layer of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO), which gives it a golden tint.įrom the book F-22 Raptor by Bill Sweetman:
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