About once a month or so, Beanie or I will post a video of someone doing something very skilled and unique. We’ve had Pele, sand artists…all kinds of interesting tidbits.

This month, I’ll be posting two things I’ve stumbled across. The first is a video of an Air Force demo of the F-22 Raptor. I think this plane is interesting because a lot of it was designed at the Lockheed-Martin office I used to work at, in Eagan, Minnesota. But what’s more staggering is that this plane can do things so unique and physically demanding that there are only a couple of Air Force pilots who can do it all. The plane can literally do a stop-and-go by flipping its nose up 140 degrees, so the tail is in front of the nose…the plane slows down while the engine pushes against its forward momentum. When the plane has almost stopped (quickly), the pilot can flip the nose back over in the original direction and take off again.

This thing is INSANE.