Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/FA22 Raptors

Reason: It's historical (the first official deployement of F-22) and very good quality for such a hard to catch image.
Articles this image appears in: F-22 Raptor
Creator: U.S. Air Force
Nominator: Arad

Support Any — Arad 20:07, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment ~~Could we have the historical year in the picture description?~~ Basar 22:37, 3 March 2007 (UTC) I found it in the metadata. Basar 22:41, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose original, ~~weak support~~ neutral Edit 1 - I've uploaded an edit which fixes the poor contrast, green colour cast and fairly heavy noise. I'm not 100% convinced about the enc of a head-on shot like this, though. I prefer the alternative as an illustration but the image quality isn't that great. --YFB ¿ 02:44, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~Weak support~~ Neutral Alternative Edit 1 - Better after a spot of noise reduction and a minor contrast boost, but there's not a great 'wow' factor and I'm a bit puzzled by the port vertical stabiliser, which looks sort of like it's been manipulated badly in Photoshop (rear edge, just in front of the rudder). --YFB ¿ 03:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I fail to see how this is historical. Are we going to see pictures of the first Toyota Camry being sold in Washington state soon? Also, call me old fashioned, but that deployment over Ohio didn't really involve any military action, did it? Wasn't it a mere testdrive? --Dschwen 12:55, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Come on. How can you compare Toyota Camry to F-22 Raptor, the best fighter plain in the world. It's technology is the best available. It's something you don't see everyday. --Arad 04:21, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Make it a Prius then ;-). Anywho, my point was more on historical... ...and the deployment being just a testdrive (not that I would rather want to see them in an actual fight). All in all it is a decent pic (but please don't call it historical). Just like all those military promo shots, I don't think it is of terribly high enc value (if it were, it probably wouldn't be declassified). --Dschwen 08:26, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose all Run-of-the-mill aircraft photos. Just because this is the Testarossa of fighter jets doesn't mean we have to elevate any middling photo of it to FP. ~ trialsanderrors 22:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose all per trailsanderrors. Plus, I don't know if anyone has noticed, but the caption here says the planes are over Ohio. Whereas in the article it says this was taken over Utah. Furthermore, the picture summary just says the planes are en route to Utah and gives no info on location whatsoever. Uberlemur 00:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, looks like I made an error. Thanks for telling that. --Arad 04:12, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

THat doesn't look like Utah to me. I'd say Ohio might be closer to it. ~ trialsanderrors 06:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 02:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]