Old Bird F-22 Crashes In The Desert
The F-22 Raptor has crashed, yet again. While going through tests, the fighter aircraft got out of the control of its pilot and smashed into the desert ground. The pilot did not survive.
This isn’t the first time the F-22 has spontaneously crashed and burned. Just a few years ago, all F-22s were grounded after a similar crash.
It is a curious thing that an Associated Press article about this crash calls the F-22 “the Air Force’s new top-of-the-line fighter.” The F-22 is actually an old and historically troublesome airplane.
The F-22 design is based on studies begun in the last 1970s. 16 years after the project to develop the F-22 was approved, the F-22 still had 165 separate design problems that had not been overcome.
The only thing the F-22 has been successful in is building political connections. F-22 construction brings pork barrel money into the districts of many influential members of Congress. So, no matter how matter how many times the old bird crashes and burns, Congress seems determined to try to resurrect it from the flames.