The Crown and Its Air Force

A thought experiment has been making the rounds: what if a single F-22 Raptor had appeared in World War II skies over Europe?

Could it have bent the entire Battle of Britain in a single sortie?

The answer isn’t in how many German fighters it could shoot down.

The answer is in tempo.

One operator, with structural superiority, bends the largest battlefield on Earth.

The Raptor didn’t need to fight every German pilot one by one.

It reset the field.

And that’s what authorship does.

The crown no longer pays.

The crown collects.