Note the difference in nose height between the first and second aircraft. Forward landing gear leg on the second aircraft appears to be higher.

The F-22’s canopy is a one-piece design featuring, what looks like, an integrated bow frame to reduce the aircraft's radar cross section and its weight.

The upper surfaces of the F-22’s wing and fuselage are covered in panels finished in different shades of coating.

Pratt & Whitney designed the F119 engine with a two-dimensional vector exhaust nozzle. The convergent-divergent nozzle can be vectored upwards or downwards by 20 degrees.

A pilot checks the captive training missile during his walk around inspection of the aircraft before an afternoon mission.

This ramp shot shows an LAU-141/A trapeze-type launcher loaded with a captive training version of an AIM-9M Sidewinder missile.

Fifteen discrete bombs marks on the side of the forward fuselage of F-22 05-4086.

A crew chief uses a PMA to prepare the forms to release the aircraft to the pilot.

Four F-22s taxy to departure from runway 24.

Four F-22 Raptors over fly the memorial at Marnes-la-Coquette, in the western suburbs of Paris on April 20, 2016 to mark the centenary of the La Fayette Escadrille.

Crew chiefs assigned to the end-of-runway inspection team check the aircraft for hot breaks, while a member of the weapons crew inspects the missiles.

F-15E Strike Eagle 01-2003/LN wears a red tail flash of the 494th Fighter Squadron, the host unit for the 95thh EFS during its UK deployment.