I thought the following was interesting considering
the number 22 (see
posts) and the word "Raptor" which sounds like "Rapture"!!!
FROM:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/173278_fyter14.html
Friday, May 14, 2004
F-22 Raptor debuts in Seattle
By JAMES
WALLACE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER AEROSPACE REPORTER
The F-22 Raptor, the nation's most advanced fighter,
gave a few hundred
Boeing employees a reason to take off from work
for a while yesterday afternoon.
About 1,000 workers at the company's developmental
center, across from the
Museum of Flight at Boeing Field, build the wings
and aft fuselage of the F-22.
GRANT M. HALLER / P-I
Boeing test pilot Randy Neville, facing camera,
is greeted by Rich Nelson,
Boeing test manager for the F-22 Raptor, after landing
the advanced fighter.
But most had never seen the fighter firsthand, even
though they have been
working on the program for years.
That changed yesterday, when the F-22 made its first appearance in Seattle.
Several hundred workers cheered as the fighter flew
low and slow over Boeing
Field and landed and taxied to an area near the
Museum of Flight. The F-22 was
followed just behind and above by an Air Force F-15,
carrying a photographer
to document the fighter's first flight to Seattle.