F-22 Raptor / 43rd Fighter Squadron Military 1920-1939 Wright J6-9(R-975) radial engine

Wright J6-9(R-975) radial engine

and will remain so well into the next century

The superior design was so successful that German high command ordered it copied

and production began in early 1975

and incorporated a number of other minor refinements

F-22 Raptor / 43rd Fighter Squadron Military 1920-1939 Wright J6-9(R-975) radial engineF 22 Raptor 43rd Fighter Squadron model. The F 22 Raptor, developed at Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the replacement for the F 15 Eagle air superiority fighter and will become operational early this century. It combines stealth design with the supersonic, highly maneuverable, dual engine, long range requirements of an air to air fighter, and it also will have an inherent air to ground capability, if needed. The