SmoothBlondeKitty

Bypass air from the compressor stage of the jet engine. Most aircraft have no climate control until the engines are running. Unless they have an auxiliary power unit. KC-135 has a little jet engine from the T-33 IFIRC, as an APU.

Nope. F-22 is the reigning champ. It takes down entire flights of F-15 and F-16 in mock combat. Supercruise, stealth and passive sensors make it dominant. It's like comparing an analog cell phone corded to your car to a new IPhone. No one wants to fly in the battle space when F-22 is aloft.

TIL! Thanks! Makes sense, you aren't cooling anything with a jet engine sitting static on the ground.

My husband dated a chick that did your job. She said the jet can't be shut down until it gets pinned or the pyrotechnic restart system would activate, since it's a single engine aircraft and cannot maintain airspeed long enough to attempt a standard jet engine restart, like say F-15 can do by dragging the airframe along with the running engine.

My husband's a contractor and talks shop all the time, it rubs off. He said if the raptor drivers get too close to legacy aircraft they just exit the area, get 75 miles between them and the fight and turn back and whack all the active and even standby aerial radars. Rinse and repeat. AMRAAM capacity is all they concern themselves with. Like fighting being a boxer against a samurai with night vision, in a darkened warehouse.