After the flight, Steve Rainey (right) was met by the entire F-22 Combined Test Force and 'hosed down' with water as is tradition. Among the crowd was, Jim Brown (left) the first F-22 test pilot to reach 1,000 hours at Edwards AFB. [Photo by Jonathan Case]
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Four-year-old Steve Rainey sat on the hood of his father's car at a local airshow watching the small airplanes and helicopters at the airport. When the Thunderbirds in their F-100s sped by, Rainey fell off the car, looked up at the sky and thought, "I've got to do that."
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