Unbelievable F-15QA Advanced Eagle Stuns Crowd at RIAT with Stunning Display! 

Yeah, good point. You usually don't see randos do this good of a job with the camera.

Came here to praise the camera man too😊

Yes, absolutely fantastic camera work. I tried following an F15 at Edwards Air Force Base back in the 80s with a betamax and after 15 minutes I couldn't feel my right arm:)

Air brake? I am the air break. - F15

And also ,almost 50 yrs old.

Not graceful - it is a massive hammer. It has the menace of a flying crocodile of the air.

Slightly smaller, reportedly slightly slower, but 3/5ths of the mass of the MiG-25 it was designed to take on. As for turns, the F-15 is high gee every day, the MiG is a dragster, goes hard, doesn't corner.

@@rustyhanna6709 Design is 50 years old, but this beauty is brand new.

I've been an aviation fan since watching Chuck Yeager and this video really impressed me. Jeeze I wish I was there.

"We're retiring F-22s, what can we backfill with?" *F-15EX*

That may be, but, the F-22 is the Apex Predator of the skies, bar none.

@@kerbalairforce8802 every eagle that went up against the F22 lost

If the F-22 is the sports car then the F-15 is the muscle car of the USAF.

You should see a knife edge pass

@@paulbartels6585knife edge pass is sick!

Great story. Thanks for sharing. 👍🏾

I was at Lakenheath summer of 1985, was with a traveling choir, and we performed there when it was still considered a forward operation base with pilots always on standby with combat pay. I know you were at another base where your viewing took place. However, your story is very cool. What a show it must have been! Thanks for sharing👍

Cool story bro

It was an amazing Jet to work on and fly in. The 90s blessed me with a decade of F15C-Es. I visited Lakenheath and Leuchars as well in the early 90s coming from Keflavik Iceland. Those were the best days of my life.

@@turkfilesthey wrote “Lakenheath” too. Thank you for your story! I’ve been trying to get my son interested in flying (i sadly am colourblind cp4 so I became a rebel at school when i learned that- don’t feel bad for me though i joined the paras and somehow I’m still alive 😂) Anyway stories like this lend me the sort of insight that makes you remember things.. like “I wasn’t interested in fighter jets until i saw one doing like the video” Thank you 🙏

What merge?

Merge?

"Merge" is when fighter jets come together within visual range and actually dogfight..Most jets are shot down from Surface to air missles or beyond visual range(BVR) engagement

Albino driver. 👍

I agree with you. Amazing 😍

You should be there in person to feel the power of that fighter jet. In Japan, Yokota AB, an F-15 pilot doing a demo run pointed it straight up. The F-15 kept climbing until its image because too small to see. That is around 1984.

@@bondgabebond4907 I was there lol, crowd centre

The USAFE F-15E’s and F-35’s are regularly dogfighting over Sheringham on the north Norfolk Cost out of Lakenheath

F-35 is the noisiest, hence many complaints by local residents around AFB where those are stationed!

​@@firefox3187Around since 1972, 1976 in service but scarcely used in real combat exception IAF. F-15 will still be around for another 5 years as experiencing reduced procurement of the " wonder jets" F-35 & F-22 ... 🤔

This ticked so many boxes for me 👌

Pretty amazing what FBW has done to our old "Albino".

@@jimgarwood9831 FBW is not new to the F-15. ALL F-15s have a Fly By Wire system that serves two purposes. 1) it is part of the stability augmentation system and is overlaid on top of the hydro/mechanical Flight Control System (FCS). 2) serves as a backup. If the Hydro/Mechanical system fails, the aircraft can be flown on the FBW only. IF the FBW fails the aircraft can fly on only the Mechanical system. In other words, the F-15A through F-15E had BOTH systems. What makes the Advanced Eagle (EX) special, is the hydromechanical flight control system (FCS) hardware has been removed making it the first F-15 to be truly FBW-controlled ONLY. Removing the mechanical system did two things. 1) reduced weight allowing for more maneuverability, or more payload in the form of extra wing hardpoints. 2) reduces maintenance hours and money. Therefore the EX is cheaper to operate and more affordable to fix. Most of the maneuvers you see here is not because of the FBW itself but by the reduced weight and the more powerful thrust produced by the new GE engines. Look up a RU-vid video called "F-15 skin damage at MAKS 2011 air show sunny" Which was taken in Russia back in 2011, and it is a standard F-15E out of Lakenheath. It does nearly all the same maneuvers (only not as violent) as you see here with the EX. Less weight means pulling harder Gs through more violent maneuvers.

Love to hear that there is no plan to discontinue such a bird .

Cool 👌

The QA is for Qatar, the EX is the US version. They're not entirely dissimilar but there've been about 48 QAs produced. I was on the USAF purchasing team.

I’m a Sr. Engineering Technician for SCI Technologies, Project F15. Thanks for the video.

You might know my brother. He worked on this program as an avionics tech before he passed.

Including a penguin landing

Those compressors are going please No More!!!

What is FBW?

@@kidnamedfinger6323Fly By Wire

Fly By Wire. Pilot's inputs travel electronically to physical control surfaces via a computer which 'interprets' what he's trying to do and makes necessary adjustments.

Wow! Wonder if it still has the new car smell!

The quality of his videos is one of the reasons that nearly half a million people subscribe to Elwyns channel. He is one of the best. 👍

yea i started to question whether this was even real from how perfect the footage is filmed and how perfect the F15 is performing. but they just got an amazing Cameraman and pilot :D

Elwyn is the best in the business at keeping the aircraft centre of frame, even during high-speed manoeuvring.

I can't wait until the fly the anti gravity giant triangle at one of these shows

@@Erikr-ex9dj yea but it will be silent and less epic :( maybe they could put a light show and sound system in it to make some noise :D

I'm so glad I got to see a F-15 display after all these years of watching them fly the machloop

Very cool. This is pretty much the same display they they have been doing since the 80's though.

​@JF-lt5zc no way. I've seen a lot of them fly here and have never seen one pull moves like this.

@@chrisheilman7612 They used to do stuff like that back when F-15s were brand new apparently. And since F-15QA have advanced Fly-by-wire system instead of hydraulic, it is much more capable in maneuverability so probably one of the reason they are showing off and why the pilot have so much control for a non-TVC aircraft. Also a good sale pitch for future buyer lol

so good it didn't really need the doctored thumbnail...

@@chrisheilman7612 Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean I didn't. :)

STRAIGHT UP!!!

no kidding

for an F15, absolutely .... usually needs a bigger run-up

@@saintuk70 Not really. Fun fact: the F-15 has the fastest gear retraction of any US gen 3+ fighter because there is a risk of over-speeding the landing gear in the short time between rotation and full gear retraction due to it's rate of acceleration.

10% fuel....

@@jakobole Of course, and no stores either, but not many planes can do that clean with 10% fuel either.

I’ve seen plenty of F-15C demos but haven’t got to see the EX/QA yet and just by watching this this video it’s a night and day difference

Maybe. The C model isn't fly by wire, so the pilot can fly the aircraft without the avionics restricting him, but I'm sure the newer models have a higher g limit, so it's probably not needed.

Wow.

To stall a jet 🤌😘

Yeah that dude clearly knows that jet inside and out.

Agreed. I was white-knuckling that!

Yea, I agree especially because that stall was at such low altitude. What 12-1500 ft?

Agree. Kudos to the team that figured out the FBW and control surface actuators. Quite an achievement considering the age of the platform. The original's control laws were established over 50years ago! Remarkable.

Seemed a bit sooty

​@@CheaperEngineerControl Law work for the YF-15A began in the 1960s. Airframe construction began in 1971. Original wings had bigger wingtips and original H-stabs didn't have the dogtooth. Original speed brake was smaller and didn't extend out as high.

@@LRRPFco52 Thank you, appreciate these details.

@@Cwomack07 The one computer-controlled feature in the legacy F-15 is the variable inlet angle that schedules based on Mach and AOA. It optimizes intake angle to keep the engines fed their optimum mass airflow to generate the required thrust across a wide range of altitude, speed, and attitude conditions. Unique to the F-15.

That's what a F15 can do with a greater than 1 to 1, Thrust weight ratio. "In Thrust we Trust."

@@LostPilotage STREAK EAGLE FTW

@@LostPilotage True, and what an engine! I have never seen a jet making tail slide without compressor stall. Awesome piece of machinery altogether!

No kidding. A couple Viper pilots have commented on its performance saying, “I’ve never seen an F-15 move like that”.

@@jacobbaumgardner3406because they couldn’t. FBW makes most of the difference.

Completely brand new girl.

You Sir, deserve a 👍, for use of the word gobsmacking. It was indeed!

Phenomenal skillset.

Yes, greta job! How much experience and training does this SINGULAR DUDE have??? 7-10 years???

I’m still amazed that a jet can carry enough fuel to even get off the runway without using it all up in 20sec

🤠

Lol, none of them are cowboys.

Glad you enjoyed it!

I remember a Bitburg or Soesterburg pilot with a F-15A at Greenham Common back in the 70s pull a wheelie on landing, but a bit too enthusiastically. He scraped it's tail bumpers almost the full length of the runway. That airframe did not do the following day's display. I bet the Crew Chief, amongst others, was less than impressed

That's called aerodynamic braking. In the f15 you don't wanna use your wheel brakes above 90 knots or else you'll cook them. The wheelie just helps slow him down so he can actually brake. Still cool though

It's called aerodynamic braking. I worked on F-106s, which had used aerobraking forever. The1st TAC 15 guys picked up on the 6s doing it, and started doing it as well. At least that was the story going around the squadron.

@@Virginia91genuinely didn’t know that. Cheers

@@capitolabill1921this is common in military lol

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Good one.

Well it's a Boeing so you know it doesn't stand for Quality Assurance 😮

@@FaustoTheBoozehoundUnfortunately for Boeing, the NTSB is the QA.

Can't do the sukhoi stall turn😮

@@FaustoTheBoozehound That's funny!

They did a lot of things from the Raptor demo, probably on purpose.

Considering the Eagle is 30 years older, the Raptor reminds me of a stealth F-15.

​@@nick21614 Yeah, pretty much on purpose, to show off what it can do with the upgrades. And maneuvers from other aircraft as well. Source: I know the pilot. Interesting factoid, since the avionics and engines are new and the upgraded 15's can now do all this high-alpha stuff, when they developed this routine, they spent a lot of time proofing it in sims. Like, "in this particular maneuver, if I lose an engine, or a horizontal stabilizer, what happens? Can I figure out a way to recover safely? Can I replicate that recovery consistently?" Since I work in software testing/QA, I thought that was neat.

The Raptor is the successor to the Eagle. It took the Eagle as its baseline inspiration and sought to improve it and add stealth. So it's not surprising that the Raptor seems similar.

...Or thrust vectoring. But I agree

This demo makes me wish the f15 active was still around.

Thanks ☺️

It couldn't before the upgrades. But it just goes to show what an awesome airframe it is and that it was well ahead of its time.

The first cobra was done by the swedish Drakken, a 50s or 60s 2nd gen jet fighter. Any semi-competent fighter jet can do a cobra; maybe with the exception of a Mig-31 or so.

There was no cobra in this display, or did I miss something?

@@mattischlese5385 About 1:06. It wasn’t an F-22 cobra but an F-15 cobra.

Buy has been reduced already. 😕😕😕

Many thanks 👌

Nearly 50 years. It entered service in 1976.

@@ThunderTaco206 You're right - i should have said a DESIGN that is nearly 55 years old. The quest began in 1968 to replace the current genre and the contract to build these was awarded in December of 1969. The first prototype was delivered in 1974. My point is that fighters are usually approaching virtual obsolescence when they are new because of the lengthy design to build process and yet this aircraft, one of the apex designs, has been around for a very long time and is still relevant. "Not a pound for the ground..." :)

@@oxigenarian9763 It's absolutely an amazing plane, and without doubt the best air superiority fighter until the F-22. The fact they were able to produce a new variant that is nearly as agile as the F-22, with the improved avionics, radar, and FBW is nothing short of incredible. The only thing it's missing is stealth. It is still a monster, and would destroy anything our potential near-peer enemies have.

@@ThunderTaco206 Yup - all true. Still undefeated in the air, my brother-in-law loved flying his...

It was 👌

🤫the f-22 is the porsche of the skies. 💩f-15 is the honda accord. 😮porsche is an excLusive car. 😶produced in Limited numbers.

Glad you enjoyed it 👌

Lol what? There was no cobra here

@@creativeearthian1702 From 2.08 till 2.30 that's almost Cobra maneuver, or at least a tail-slide.

@@creativeearthian1702 you maybe right at around 0:58 there is a maneuver that comes close to a cobra

@dmh54321 almost close. Key words being almost and close

Thanks again! 👌

I would have said Queen of The Skies.

You should see his Raptor Demo video. One of the best I've seen!

@@DreadWing7777 no that's the A380. King of the skies, Hmm if we discount Russian junk that has to be F22 followed closely by RAF FGR4 Typhoon. YMMD

should get to see the Raptor again later this year

The QA is the Qatari export version of the EX. Basically the same jet.

❤

Very much a matter of opinion, but it certainly is a nice looking aircraft.

The single seater is prettier for my tastes

Thanks 👍

Yeh its sick how enduring the F15 is as an aircraft. Amazing craft.