Andrews AFB for Air-Show and F-22 Demo Flight

May 18, 2008, Andrews AFB, Maryland
Contact: Foreign Press Center Defense Liaison Officer Andrew Strike
Telephone: 202-504-6356; Email: strikeap2@state.gov

Fourteen print and TV journalists visited Andrews AFB for the annual Joint Service Open House and air-show.  The media viewed the exhibits from all the services, interviewed ground crews and pilots from the V-22 Osprey, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, B-52 bomber and other aircraft on display.  The highlight of the program was a demonstration flight by the new F-22 Raptor stealth fighter, which flew in public for the first time.  TV crews from Japan, Korea, and Russia filmed the F-22's 7-minute flight and interviewed the pilot afterwards on the tarmac beside the aircraft.