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Another fun fact, they did it again in the early 90's. This time they kept the paint on it. They did this on an A-model. They swapped out the F100-PW100 for F100-PW229's which have the same footprint as the PW100's but produced about 8k more thrust per engine, bringing the thrust numbers up to 11k more total thrust. The windscreen started to delam and melt on the runs so they had to quit. I had heard numbers exceeding Mach 3 in a full power slick flight mode and fuel consumption was astronomical...quite an era for flight and being assigned to Edwards 412th Test Wing.
Yep, more speed increases the heat and stress upon the airframe as a whole. The SR-71 is the best example of one such airframe built for such occurrences and surviving them, mission after mission... albeit the fuel leaks.
Dear F4 Phantom Even though the 15 beat your records, you are an absolutely beautiful jet! You are the reason I joined the Air Force. And ... the F16 is the best plane EVER! 2W1X1 luv!
I’m sure it also broke the fuel consumption record as well, particularly during the last climb on full afterburners! It must have been on hell of a ride! Well done!
I would give both arms both legs, my left nut and an eye to go on a full afterburner unlimited climb in an f-15. As long as I could pay up after the ride, totally worth it lol
@@russbell6418 Because some people can't speak english and others just plain have an annoying voice. Why do you think authors don't read/sing their own stuff? Or engineers fly the planes they design?
Perhaps in practical terms? With a useful configuration and amount of fuel? But to be completely precise, pretty sure both the English Electric Lightning and the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter could at least fly, if not for long, with a weight of less than their engine's thrust under afterburner. Not to take anything from the F-15! It's simply an AMAZING jet! That the USAF is taking delivery of new F-15EXs in 2024, FIFTY years after it's development was being finalized is simply astounding. And it's still one of the most well rounded, most capable fighter jets flying today. While the Starfighter and Lightning, while granted long serving, are retired and had far more limited usefulness as weapons and much less actual combat history. I think they should make a Streak Eagle II out of a EX Eagle II! Surely a stripped down EX could beat the record. The Russians beat this record months later in a Mig-25 it seems. www.fai.org/record/9070 www.fai.org/record/9069
@IsfetSolaris I mean they tested it and it is faster.... if they break the engine 😂 ours are faster without breaking the engine. Bet the f15 would be even more insane if we decided we don't care about the engine too
Actually no they don't. Astronauts have to endure constant acceleration for much longer then the F15 pilot. That's why they go through a tougher training then fighter pilots.
Also, it was that F-15 only, none of the others could pu that feat. But the soviets had a plane that could, made exactly to attempt to break the Streak Eagle's records,, succeeding in some, but not in all.
Exactly! How much lateral distance was covered by the Saturn in the same time? Bet a ton more than the eagle. People don't understand orbital mechanics, you don't go straight up
I crewed C and D models in Okinawa, and A and B models at Holloman. At Kadena we got a delivery of conformal tanks we mounted onto the C and D mods we had. Several months later some of the first E models showed up. At Kadena, every Friday we'd have a local demo flight just over the flightline. Just for 18th AGS ground crews. A max climb to 10K ft, then down to 1K ft to an Immelmann. Some four-point rolls, a cool wing stall trick and my favorite, the low altitude, high speed, high G hairpin 180. 90-degree bank loading up six to eight G with at least two stages of burner lit... man, it ripped the sky!
I bet the F14 give you some headaches over the years. It's not until you work on a jet and you think we're the designers drunk when they pieced this together.
@larkop6504 Not at all. I heard the older guys at the time said that the F4 Phantom was a pia to work on in comparison to Tomcats. So that tells me that before the Tomcats, they really didn't have anything to compare the F4 to and probably wasn't a "headache" as I only worked on the Tomcat myself.
@@squidusn71 Interesting, it's a fairly big airframe when compared to the modern jets so I can only assume that meant there was easy access for repairs. Worked on a few fast jets and I could swear they were designed by Audi engineers. First month on the job got asked to change a filter and said it would take an hour, had to remove approx 30 LRUs before even getting to the filter., it definitely didn't take an hour. Others you had to remove the entire wing. Always enjoyed the hush house though.
@larkop6504 I've seen super hornets with all the access panels removed, and I think that it's about equal to Tomcats as far as accessibility for maintenance.
@@squidusn71 Interesting, best display I ever seen was a Superhornet from the Swiss airforce, it was brand new just out of the wrapper and he went up against an older Spanish F18, the older aircraft had a pilot that had a point to make, ballsy stick jockeying. Had the pleasure of tinkering with old ww2 aircraft, then 1970s and 80s then the more modern European aircraft. Some clever design aspects but maintenance seemed to be an afterthought.
I was at Grand Forks AFB then and saw this happen. It was a little startling to watch. To see an aircraft accelerate and climb that quickly was a sight to behold.
Hah! So was I. Two things I remember; it was colder that 💩that day…and the noise that jet made as it climbed literally out of sight ( straight up)was staggering.
@johntheclyde2816 I was at the auto hobby shop working on my car at the time. One of the mx guys told us that we should go outside and watch something cool. What an understatement. It really was cold that day, to be sure.
No, it's not painted. It's restored to as pictured in these clips of it breaking records, but they do have another few F15s, an F-15C with missile and gun displays in the cold war hangar which is number 86-0156, piloted by Capt "Claw" Hwang when he shot down a couple MiGs in Yugoslavia, plus an F-15A out front in the grass.
@@DarthXavius My mistake. It WAS painted - I have old photos of it completely painted - but they must’ve since done a proper restoration. I was just at the museum last weekend and confirmed.
@williamsturgell3294 Okinawa was a great place... only one issue, the humidity in the Spring, Summer and Fall. Was your Dad in the Marine Corps or Air Force?
@mikemwanza8027 LOL, good one Mike. January 1975, I was a 19 yrs old Lance Corporal in the Marine Corps. 50 yrs later, that makes me old, 69 yrs old next month. Semper Fi
RAF: “Hold my beer, Yankee!” In the 1960’s, the English Electric Lightning was an operational Mach-2+ fighter which, when loaded with a typical fuel and missile configuration, would climb faster than this naked F-15, only rolling off the top to protect the skin from high temperatures and not to do with the engine flaming out. It would accelerate to beyond Mach 2 in the vertical climb. It could then stay on station for about 25 minutes before heading back to base due to a lack of fuel. Hence, later marks had added fuel tanks but took longer to get to altitude. This was our frontline operational fighter in the 1960’s and 70’s in its operational configuration and not a stripped down version. 😜😎😝
Sorry Brit ! I searched a few websites and could not find anything that validates or indicates any Time-to-Climb records for the Electric Lightning. The only thing I found was it's record altitude at the time was 87,800 ft. As stated by the pilot. I believe the pilot and certainly the Electric Lightning was very fast ! However, I found nothing to show anything that represented a special effort with specialized equipment to record or validate a TTC or Altitude Record. Considering it was one of the earliest twin-engine jet fighters of it's day it may have been capable of setting records for it's time. But it appears there are no official or documented records. So, given that the F-15 is 10 years more advanced with more powerful engines I think it is safe to say that it's 98,425' in 207.8 seconds was a record on the day that it occured. Does it still hold the record(s), I have no idea. Does it matter at this point in time ? Not really. Both planes were exceptional for their day. Alas , time marches on and new planes & engines eventually out perform the older ones. For me, I love them all ! Put me in a biplane, a General Aviation aircraft or a military jet, and I will smile for the whole day ! 😊
@@BillSmith-fx7xx An average of about 325 mph. Imagine how slow it was at the start and how fast it must having been going at some point in the middle. At the end it had to be near zero before breaking off. That plane was flat smoking.
The Streak Eagle was stripped of many fighting systems (guns, radar, pylons, etc) but they added back in test equipment and back up batteries/hydraulics among other things. So it was really, very close to the regular empty weight of an ‘A’ model F-15 at about 26,000 pounds. One of my favorite facts: to keep from over-speeding the nose gear doors (250KT limit), they had to bypass the weight-on-wheels safety that kept it extended until all three gear were off the ground. Their procedure was to move the gear handle to UP as soon as they had airspeed indicated on the HUD (around 40KTS). Then once they rotated the nose gear could retract, while the mains were still rolling. You can see this clearly in some footage out there: Bolt release-acceleration-rotation-nose wheel retracts-lift off.
The nose gear retracts much faster than the main gear I doubt they messed with the WOW Switch on the nose gear. (WOW is the Weight Off Wheels switch) The Streak Eagle was released using the tail hook and a explosive bolt and engines at max. No need to mess with the WOW Switch on the nose gear the gear retracts plenty fast enough. F-18’s launch on aircraft carriers with the assist of a catapult launch much faster and they don’t mess with the Nose WOW Switch. I have retracted the landing gear on the F-15 many, many times at the factory. One more thing the F-15 has three Hydraulic System and the Streak Eagle only had one HYD SYS they removed the other two systems.
@@alanwhiteside410 I heard from the guy that just finished restoring the Streak Eagle at the AF museum that they did in fact bypass the WoW switch because the retract timing had to be so precise to avoid an aborted flight due to overspeeding. You can clearly see the nose gear almost fully retraced before the main gear ever starts moving in some videos of the Streak Eagle. You've got to consider a loaded F18 probably weighs a considerable amount more than the Streak Eagle, and it launches with flaps. The catapult might get an F18 to 150kts faster that the Streak Eagle, but I wouldnt be surprised if the Eagle beat it to 250. Once the F18 leaves the flight deck its rate of acceleration drops by a bunch. The Streak Eagle on the other hand wasn't far behind a catapult launch (airborn in 400ft vs 300 off a carrier) and kept its rate of acceleration due to its much cleaner configuration (no flaps, no hard points, etc).
Then, yes. Awesome aircraft. Another impressive feat copying…yet marginally outdoing the competition(due to electronics, not engines). Today, it’s as useless as our Navy(EXCLUDING Subs), Air Force, and satellites. I’d like to get into why, but IS censorship jTube will delete what’s said.
Back in the late 70`s my dad used to take me to Womack AFB and we would get a hotdog and watch the pilots do touch and go`s in these magnificent machines. I always loved these things.
I have a bone to pick with you fly boys at Elmendorf. I was born and raised in AK. As a Boy Scout we used to go camping at Elmendorf/Ft Rich a lot. During the dark winters, when they weren't chasing the Russkies (this was in the late 70's to late 80's), and when the pilots found out the Scouts were staying on base. They would break the sound barrier, right over our tents, at 1am to 3am and scared the living B'Jesus out of the newer Scouts. And the poor out of state kids would think either this was a massive earthquake, or the Cold War just went hot! lol
@@GenXerReacts That must have been a thing back then. I can remember being at the Scout Ranch in South Eastern Missouri back in the 70's and they would break the sound barrier over our camp almost every day.
@@GenXerReacts I guarantee no F-15 ever went mach, low level, anywhere in the Anchorage bowl. That pilot would be permanently grounded. Now, if you were camping near Six Mile Lake, any Eagles taking off to the north in afterburner would rattle your lungs, but that's not a sonic boom.
The F-15 was my favourite military aircraft as a kid… still Love it today… it flew these missions right around the time when I was born… might be why I love it lol…
Me too! I used to build model airplanes growing up in the 80s with my cousin. His favorite was the F-16 but mine was always and still is the F-15 Eagle. The only undefeated fighter plane in the world
I was in the Marine Corps (F18 - Powerline) and stationed at Kadena. Our line shack was at the end of the runway, I watched an F15 take off. Wheels up about 20’ off the deck and stayed that low till he or she got to our shop…then with afterburners on, turned 90° straight up until almost out of sight. At that moment the F15 became one of my favorite aircraft!!! They also did a maneuver at altitude that was very cool…from vertical they started into an inside loop then half way through they twisted to horizontal flat level flight… One of our pilots told me that it was a 0G maneuver…one of the coolest things EVER! My own personal air show!! Thank you to who ever that AF pilot was!!! 🫡 (west-pac 1996 VMFA (AW) 242 🦇⚡️)
F15 "Streak Eagle" is about 37,000 lbs with fuel according to McDonnell Douglas. About 1,400 lbs lighter than the production run. TWR of 1.4 with afterburner, just a bit higher than the Saturn V. The Saturn V is 6,540,000 lbs according to NASA. I believe the weight was reduced to 6,200,400 in later missions. Remove the million lbs the first stage has to lift and it would increase TWR to over 2G on take off. It would beat the F15 climb record by over 50%. Only fair since it's a stripped down jet vs a fully loaded rocket.
Not to mention, they didn't specify if the F-15 was moving horizontally as they began the timer or if it was sitting on the runway at full stop. If it was already moving forward, then the transfer of energy from horizontal to vertical gives it an advantage. In either case, it's an amazing aircraft with the best climb rate in a fighter. I just want to know the details of the comparison.
@@crossefire01 timer started at 0kts at taihook release with the engines fully spooled up and in afterburner. Two of my favorite things of all the things...the F15 and the Saturn V!
@@crossefire01 To break the time to climb records it needed to be at a standstill on the ground. In this case they had a tether on it to keep it from rolling. You can actually see the tether in part of the video clip
Until the Streak Eagle, the Saturn V was the fastest accelerating flying machine. Top fuel dragsters were still quicker. In the mid-70s, SPRINT became the fastest accelerating vehicle ever built, capable of accelerating at 100+ Gs.😮
P-42, Special version of SU-27. Between 1986 and 1988, it established and took several climb records from the Streak Eagle. Several of these records (such as time to climb to 3000 m, 6000 m, 9000 m, and 12000 m) still stands current...
A very good friend of mine's dad is Col. Smith - one of the three pilots who flew those record flights. My son got to interview Col. Smith for one of his JROTC classes. What an amazing man. Oh the stories he would tell.
@my-yt-inputs2580 no,thrust to lift. Some planes like gliders have a very low thrust ratio but an extreme high lift ratio, so they don't need much speed to get airborne. F15 is the opposite. It generates so much thrust that it doesn't need to be aerodynamic
@@phantomwraith1984 For the vertical it's not about lift but weight compared to engine thrust available. Thus Thrust to Weight ratio. The lift vector is not part of that equation. The F4 had less than 1 to 1 thrust ratio so it couldn't maintain the vertical for an extended time. This was due to the lower thrust available from the J79 engines, even with AB. The F15 on the other hand had higher thrust engines so depending on the weight of the F15 it had a higher than 1 to 1 thrust to weight ratio thus able to actually accelerate in the pure vertical. And FWIW a glider has ZERO thrust.
ah yes, the time uncle sam said fuck it and built a jet made from pure horsepower and gunpowder and accidentally created the most lethal fighter of all time
Can thank the Russians for that lol. We had no idea what they had, so we just over-engineered the fuck out of the 4th gen fighter lol. When a Russian defected with their fighter we learned it was a POS.
Used to have to drive I-70 near McDonell Douglas and if it was warm and you had your windows down the F-15 going straight up in full afterburner’s would shake you awake like you being hit by a train barreling down on you
I was the Chief Engineer on this project. The primary reason the plane went up is because down was only ground and it was much easier to fly through air than ground with the technology we had. Despite the obvious disadvantages of flying through the air rather than the ground, having the ground underneath the plane provided some advantages. You can use it to store the plane and it allows the pilot to exit the plane without ejecting.
Beautiful jet the F15 and the Eurofighter typhoon 👌 also the F14 and F16 deserve a mention the teen series fighters were all outstanding for their time and present aswell
65 years living in St. Louis County and as a young pre-teen watching from my aunt's backyard less than a half mile from Lambert Field we watched those F-15 test runs. My neck still hurts watching those burners disappear into the heavens.
I remember when this happened. I was a junior in high school. They stripped everything they could out of the jet to lighten it up as much as possible and then installed lead ballast to keep the proper center of gravity. I believe the records were accomplished at Minot AFB in the dead of winter. Coldest temperatures = better overall performance. Amazing times, the 1970s.
When I was at NSAWC, the F-18 pilots would regularly do crazy take offs and low passes, but nobody does it like the F-15. When the airforce came for training, which was rare, they always took the chance to go wild bc we were in the middle of the desert
And the Saturn V is HOW many millions of tons and starting from a dead stop...? I was stationed at NAS Cecil Field, Florida, an hour west of Jacksonville off I-10 (no longer active). In 1985, a pair of the new F/A-18s arrived to show off. Basically the same engines as the F-14s, it was half the size, half the weight, and half the crew. After some high-power takeoffs and general aerobatics, they challenged the F-14 pilots to a mock dogfight. 12 Cats went up against the Hornets. We watched in awe as the Hornets stung every single Cat, and not one Cat got a claw on a Hornet..... I fell in love with the F/A-18 Hornet that day. In my mind, they are to air superiority as the A-10 is to ground support - simply THE BEST aircraft for the job.
I will say however that there is an aircraft that beats it. The F-22. Naval aircraft are generally larger and heavier than Air Force aircraft due to needing much beefier landing gear and lifting bodies which hamper maneuverability. But they will still smoke any other aircraft in the sky. Though the eagle might be able to match
Here’s the thing… you put either of those aircraft up against an F-22 or F-35, and the older planes will be splashed before they even know the adversary is there. I love the Tomcat and the Eagle, both are just sexy sexy aircraft, and the Hornet is pretty badass too. But you just can’t compete with the superior tracking/targeting capabilities and stealth aspects of the new planes.
@@davidwate6057 however when it comes to carrying warheads and multi role. The hornet is where it’s at. Especially since it’s a carrier based platform that also acts as a electronic warfare aircraft (the growler variant) it’s very hard to beat
@@wolfknight1768 F/A-18 EW package can’t handle the smoke from an F-35, and those have carrier based variants as well. F/A-18 is a beast, don’t get me wrong, but its days are numbered. Everything ages out, except Gandpa Buff.
It was called a "streak" eagle because like streakers running through a restaurant without any clothes on, it did a demo flight "without any clothes on."
The saturn V moon rocket was 363 feet tall in weighted over 7 million pounds and did vertical liftoffs.. It lifted a spacestation to orbit with one try.. Put that in your world records.
@@alexojideagu because it needs to achieve escape velocity to even be useful...why else would NASA strap boosters that will accelerate something to probably close to Mach 10 if not to send it out of our atmosphere If the F-15 was equipped with the same boosters as the Saturn V had then the 15 would simply tell physics to piss off and would beat Issac Newton into submission
So, they treated the F15 like a Honda Civic "race" car. Stripped down & a JDM engine with VTEC. 😂 "Here it screams at 9k rpms after the VTEC kicks in!" 🤣
They don't mention it here but the F-15 streaker is the only fighter or jetplane I've known of w a thrust to weight ratio that allowed it to accelerate while verticle.
That explains how the Israeli pilot managed to land an F-15 after an air crash that took away its right wing. It doesn't need wings, at those speeds the F-15 body has enough lift. The pilot steered the half-plane by changing the thrust between left and right turbines.
The power level at Tier 0 and Tier 1 were bonkers. Absolutely agreed. Our guild was consistently getting the 144M crate on Endor and managed the sneak into 3rd crate on this one. I don’t mind farming and gearing teams for raid, but Ahnald covered the farming issues for the teams in this raid. Brutal.
Being someone that greatly admires the Saturn V I have to say that in 207 seconds the Saturn V was traveling at around 15,290 MPH having consumed 15 tons of fuel every second for 2.5 minutes. In a little over 3 minutes a 6.2 million pound vehicle is traveling over 15,000 MPH is simply amazing. A little slow off the starting block allowed the F15 to cover more distance but that didn’t last long. Not sure I agree with the title “faster than a space rocket”.
