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Those few pilots favored with the opportunity to fly the F-22 Raptor quickly become comfortable with the aircraft’s unique characteristics. They talk casually about aircraft handling qualities at airspeeds and angles of attack that would make any other fighter spin out of controlled flight. In the same conversation, they describe outstanding handling qualities at supersonic speeds and regularly running chase aircraft out of gas. The F-22 is an impressive aircraft at both ends of the flight envelope. These outstanding performance traits combined with advanced avionics and stealth define the capability of the Raptor. In this second in a series of articles of pilot impressions on the F-22, Lt. Col. David Nelson explains the relationship between stealth and other qualities of the F-22, and Bret Luedke takes on the topic of sensor fusion.