F-15QA Advanced Eagle "clean demo"- Spirit of St. Louis Airshow 2024 [FULL DEMO] 

The big GE engines are so nuts!

Go for another Climb for time - Streak Eagle Redux...😮

Fly-by-wire does the trick!😊

Best airshow in the world

It's not your daddy's F-15.

Vector thrusting technology and some nose canards super beast then

@@maximilliancunningham6091mig-29 is the daddy

@@rosieclark3661 I've heard that the fly-by-wire system uses the intakes (which, as I'm sure you know, can move up and down) as canards. I saw one EX (or maybe EA) demo in which those things were changing angles (independently) like mad...so I believe it.

@@rosieclark3661 No, but thanks for playing.

Thrust vectoring is a crutch for otherwize mediocre performance.

@@maximilliancunningham6091 Afterburners are a crutch for otherwise mediocre performance. See how that sounds ?

@rael5469 Afterburners are necessary for any jet. Thrust vectoring is a crutch for non-aerodynamic jets like stealth jets that have an inherently worse design so that they can have stealth. They're also not without their drawbacks like cost of maintenance complexity of maintenance and weight. A good aerodynamic design such as the f-15 paired with a higher thrust to weight ratio than every fighter jet out there is what enables it to do the things that thrust vectoring jets can do without the need for it. Thus saving weight and cost.

@@mopar1524 Thrust vectoring is NOT a crutch. It's a modern marvel. That you don't get that is astounding.

@rael5469 Pointing the engines is not a modern marvel and certainly nothing new. That you don't get is astounding. An experimental F-15 was doing it in the 80s and the harder way before then. It's literally only necessary on heavy jets with horrible aerodynamic designs. They need it to maneuver.

No prob! Wish the sun was out but oh well!

This jet turns on a dime!

I was noticing that too, whenever the high aspect/pitch up happens, the tails really do flutter. And yes, no doubt this thing can maneuver better than F15s of old.. #favplane

Same issue on F-18...

Yes.

Modern fly by wire computer reacting to keep the Aircraft stable at slow speeds. You can have Radio Controlled aircraft do similar.

Thanks! It sure is!

Thank You! It’s such a cool airplane!

Just my hands haha, shot it vertical that’s why the jet isn’t always centered.

Yep the GE engines have the turkey feathers they took them off on the Pratt engines

The turkey feathers! It was really bugging me what made the back end look so different, I hadn't even registered it when I was watching, thank you. Also is this new model longer that D and E's?

@@aircraft_static_and_moving It was a crime when they removed them. They totally complete the look of the Eagle.

@@CaseyHowdenPhoto That's a good question. I'm sure there are slight differences between the EX and the older models.

That’s a great question, it will never hurt to have an extra brain and an extra set of eyes in a jet that powerful. The F-15QA became the F-15EX for the Air Force. I know they kept the EX as two seaters because it would have cost more to redesign into a single seat jet. Not sure if that was the reasoning for the QA. As far as I’m concerned an extra seat just adds capability. Lots of information is being fed to pilots and WSOs these days.

I think they didn’t have them on for the demo, because the lighter the better. Operationally I’m sure they will all have them:)

You would turn down a chance to ride in that?

@@davidsmithson9236 But he's already a weapon system officer. He has no function during a flight demo. It just seems odd that he would want to strain his gut just for a flight demo.

F22 is just a sleeker thrust vectoring F-15.

Sorry man did it all free hand and vertical, so I cropped it down to fit You Tube long form. There’s plenty of other videos of the demo out there for you to watch and complain about.

@@aircraft_static_and_moving I appreciate the work to make the video but it's so frustrating to watch the jet go in and out of the frame. Only thing worse is when they drop the camera down at the exact moment the plane crashes, or the bear attacks, or the explosion happens, usually because they want to see it with their own eyes, not the eye of the camera. So there's my complaint about other videos, like you asked for...:)

@@KevFlaAVCHDHave you ever tried to film fast moving jet with a zoom lens? The men did a great job here

Don't underestimate Russian tech. This new F-15 may be bad ass, but it's no match for an S-400

@@RKZX2 Have you ever considered a career in stand up comedy ? Russia can't even take Ukraine, in 3 long years.

@@RKZX2 More than a match, actually...especially given the EPAWSS

The flutter is pretty crazy!

The particular jet belongs to Boeing but the F-15QA was designed for Qatar.

TVC has been tested in the 80s on F-15s

They already tried that. Look up F-15 STOL/MTD

Honestly thrust vectoring is amazing for Airshows but for how much it costs to put on an airplane the tactical advantage isn’t all that much. You basically get one shot to whip your nose onto someone but if that doesn’t work you have no energy left.

TV adds to weight, cost, and maintenance. As for canards: I read that on the EX (or EA?) the fly-by-wire uses the variable-pitch intakes as canards.

Another pleeb who underestimates Russian tech. The US & NATO are throwing everything against Russia & STILL losing! The US military is merely a shell of it's former self. Don't listen to me, listen to Scott Ritter, Doug Macgregor, Larry Johnson, Lawrence Wilkerson. ALL ex military and/or CIA & they all say the same thing.

It's the same airframe with same control surfaces so sustained rate isn't affected. Going from mechanical linkage to fly by wire gave it better slow speed and instantaneous turn performance. Really is more about safety, flexibility, and reduced maintenance. This is what the plane originally would have been if development had started 5 years later.

​@@patrickcamp5885 One of the main reasons for adding digital FBW is for the automatic stability to allow the outer wing hardpoints to be loaded.