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Re: F-15 crashes in Libya
« Reply #30 on: March 22, 2011, 08:20:42 PM »
F-15 in Libya "crashes"....... right.
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Re: F-15 crashes in Libya
« Reply #31 on: March 22, 2011, 09:16:33 PM »
Quote from: Plawranc on March 22, 2011, 08:20:42 PM
F-15 in Libya "crashes"....... right.
Edited....probably shouldn't say that..
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Re: F-15 crashes in Libya
« Reply #32 on: March 22, 2011, 09:38:13 PM »
eagl i am seriously jealous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp4zrP0orC8

as far as i can tell it might have been a flame-out causing a flat-spin.
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Re: F-15 crashes in Libya
« Reply #33 on: March 22, 2011, 09:57:39 PM »
Quote from: camnite on March 22, 2011, 09:38:13 PM
as far as i can tell it might have been a flame-out causing a flat-spin.

I hate it when that happens.
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Re: F-15 crashes in Libya
« Reply #34 on: March 22, 2011, 09:58:00 PM »
Talking about rate of climb, about 20-yrs ago I was at an airshow in Southern California. An SR-71 ups from the field and does a couple racetracks around the field. The first two times it hits afterburn over the runway so we can see the blue plume out the tail end. At the end of the runway they would pull the throttle back and do another loop. Third time was a charm. Hit the end of the runway and kept going. Within a dozen seconds or so it became a black speck that disappeared from sight. Gone!

My brother and I were talking to an F-15 pilot standing next to his ride. All he said was "Holy toejam I wish we had that excelleration!"

I don't know how well the SR-71 could excellerate in the verticle, or if they would even allow it but it made one Eagle driver jealous.

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Re: F-15 crashes in Libya
« Reply #35 on: March 23, 2011, 12:05:02 AM »
Quote from: Wildcat1 on March 22, 2011, 04:21:34 PM

32 years of active service and no F-15 has ever been shot down

I think we lost a couple of E's to ground fire/SAM in Gulf War 1?
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Re: F-15 crashes in Libya
« Reply #36 on: March 23, 2011, 12:08:53 AM »
Quote from: Stoney on March 23, 2011, 12:05:02 AM
I think we lost a couple of E's to ground fire/SAM in Gulf War 1?

Yes, I'm positive we did. I think however, that Wildcat is referring to air to air combat.
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Re: F-15 crashes in Libya
« Reply #37 on: March 23, 2011, 12:37:43 AM »
Quote from: EskimoJoe on March 23, 2011, 12:08:53 AM
Yes, I'm positive we did. I think however, that Wildcat is referring to air to air combat.

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Re: F-15 crashes in Libya
« Reply #38 on: March 23, 2011, 08:53:20 AM »
Quote from: camnite on March 22, 2011, 09:38:13 PM
eagl i am seriously jealous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp4zrP0orC8

as far as i can tell it might have been a flame-out causing a flat-spin.
All the US Aviators know how to put on a good show...I got to see one of the last flights of a F14 from the USS Theodore Roosevelt, just as the F14 got done a 4 point roll 3 Super Hornets did a highspeed pass from behind the crowd scaring the crap out of everyone with how loud and fast they came over :rofl
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Re: F-15 crashes in Libya
« Reply #39 on: March 23, 2011, 09:13:58 AM »
Quote from: mthrockmor on March 22, 2011, 09:58:00 PM
My brother and I were talking to an F-15 pilot standing next to his ride. All he said was "Holy toejam I wish we had that excelleration!"

I don't know how well the SR-71 could excellerate in the verticle, or if they would even allow it but it made one Eagle driver jealous.

Boo

At sea level in max afterburner at 200 knots the thrust is placarded as just over 52k lbs. Dry weight for the SR-71 varies between 56,000 lbs to over 60,000 depending on the configuration. The fuel qty low light comes on with less than 4,050 lbs in tank 4 and 5,400 lbs in tank 1.

Another interesting point, the SR-71 is limited to 450 KEAS, at low altitudes it cannot achieve mach 1. Only after climbing to around 20,000 feet could it theoretically break the sound barrier. In practice the SR-71 would level off around 30k and perform a dip that decreased the time spent in Mach buffet.

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Re: F-15 crashes in Libya
« Reply #40 on: March 23, 2011, 09:46:44 AM »
Accelerate

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Re: F-15 crashes in Libya
« Reply #41 on: March 23, 2011, 12:10:49 PM »
Quote from: mthrockmor on March 22, 2011, 09:58:00 PM
Talking about rate of climb, about 20-yrs ago I was at an airshow in Southern California. An SR-71 ups from the field and does a couple racetracks around the field. The first two times it hits afterburn over the runway so we can see the blue plume out the tail end. At the end of the runway they would pull the throttle back and do another loop. Third time was a charm. Hit the end of the runway and kept going. Within a dozen seconds or so it became a black speck that disappeared from sight. Gone!

My brother and I were talking to an F-15 pilot standing next to his ride. All he said was "Holy toejam I wish we had that excelleration!"

I don't know how well the SR-71 could excellerate in the verticle, or if they would even allow it but it made one Eagle driver jealous.

Boo

I was probably at that show...  SoCal native here = )
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Re: F-15 crashes in Libya
« Reply #42 on: March 23, 2011, 01:12:39 PM »
Quote from: EskimoJoe on March 23, 2011, 12:08:53 AM
Yes, I'm positive we did. I think however, that Wildcat is referring to air to air combat.

it was my understanding that we've never officially lost an F-15 due to either air or ground fire...

i'll have to check that out

EDIT: two F-15Es were shot down by anti-aircraft fire in the first gulf war. oops. :(

however, these seem to be the only two F-15 combat losses of any kind
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