F-22 grounded by honey bees Posted on August 11, 2016August 11, 2016 by alert5 192nd Fighter Wing Aircraft Maintainers found a swarm of honey bees hanging from the exhaust nozzle of an F-22 Raptor engine on June 11, 2016 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. A local honey bee keeper was called to remove and relocate the bees to a safe place for them to build their hive. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo) 192nd Fighter Wing Aircraft Maintainers found a swarm of honey bees hanging from the exhaust nozzle of an F-22 Raptor engine on June 11, 2016 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. Andy Westrich, U.S. Navy retired and local honey bee keeper, was called to remove and relocate the bees to a safe place for them to build their hive. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo) 192nd Fighter Wing Aircraft Maintainers found a swarm of honey bees hanging from the exhaust nozzle of an F-22 Raptor engine on June 11, 2016 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. A local honey bee keeper was called to remove and relocate the bees to a safe place for them to build their hive. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo) 192nd Fighter Wing Aircraft Maintainers found a swarm of honey bees hanging from the exhaust nozzle of an F-22 Raptor engine on June 11, 2016 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. Andy Westrich, U.S. Navy retired and local honey bee keeper, was called to remove and relocate the bees to a safe place for them to build their hive. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo) Lt. Col. Catherine M. Jumper, 192nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron commander, presents Andy Westrich, U.S. Navy retired and local honey bee keeper, with a coin on June 11, 2016 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. Westrich was called to save and relocate a swarm of honey bees that landed on the exhaust nozzle of an F-22 Raptor engine. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo) Related posts (Automatically Generated): Its not everyday a B-1B flies in formation with a EA-18G F-22s back in the air RAF Eurofighters arrived at Langley Air Force Base for Exercise Western Zephyr F-22, F-35 operational integration training mission JASDF C-130 crew chief celebrates 10,000 hours at RF-A 2016 Virginia Air & Space Center to get F-15