Flying the F-15E Strike Eagle | Matt Hall (Part 2)

[@SuperEdge67]

F18 pilot, F15E pilot, Red Bull Air Race pilot!! I watch these, but they make me feel like such an underachiever.

[@66lesjo]

He seems like a really nice guy. A true Aussie hero too.

[@venners4288]

"I'd sign an F15 out for the weekend" What a life.

[@raynic1173]

Can you imagine...lets go skiing in Colorado this weekend, Ok. External fuel tank is modified to hold skis, lol....Girl from the club has deguises to look like your WSO.

[@martindaley7999]

That picture at 22 minutes is great, as is the whole interview

[@Aircrewinterview]

Thanks Martin!

[@rcdelgado1027]

Family and I met Matt a few weeks back at the Illawarra airshow. Top bloke, took the time out for photos with my boys and autographed his book we bought. Polished the book in no time. Inspirational career/read for any pilot young and old…

[@christianeasley767]

Thank You, MATT!!!!!!❤️🫡🙏🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🪂🪂🪂🪂

[@mickmckean7378]

Great interview Mike and Matt. It was awesome to see Matt finally win that elusive Red Bull Air Race championship, he'd been so close so many times. Good onya Matt!

[@Aircrewinterview]

Cheers Mick.

[@tedzehnder961]

What an amazing man.Pilots are special people.

[@Aircrewinterview]

Don’t tell the navs/WSOs that!

[@muzzaball]

Fantastic stories and a marvellous career. Top bloke being an Aussie of course! Love ya Matt.

[@couchfighter]

My uncle "Soup" Came to visit St Louis/boeing and since we live here, he stayed with us "1998" He was the base commander at Tyndall and flew an f15 in and even had his golf clubs with him.

[@stuartmacgregor3084]

Signing out a Strike Eagle for the weekend…. Legend. Great interview, I think a live Q&A is in order.

[@Deano084]

Thanks for service mate!

[@CallsignEskimo-l3o]

I love the photo over-flying Nobbys & Newcastle Ocean Baths in the background.

[@CAG5205]

And again a great interview 👍🏼The Exchangepilotstorys are always very interesting and entertaining 🙏🏼🎗

[@maytechmayhem6178]

What a legend

[@matk4731]

Once again fantastic interview. What a legend. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻🙃🙃

[@Aircrewinterview]

Thanks Mat.

[@smeary10]

Brilliant series. Thank you. Very much enjoyed both episodes with Matt Hall. Excellent interviewing dealt with with the utmost professionalism and respect. Well done. I was terribly disappointed it ended at two!

[@Aircrewinterview]

Thank you very much!

[@ti1ion]

Wow. Until the air racing portion I did not put the pieces together, but Matt had a near "miss" with the water in 2010! I was at that race and probably have some photos of him flying, but I don't believe I got any of that particular moment. I am surprised you did not ask him to talk about that one. Now I have to go look through the files to see if I got any photos of him at the "hangars" that Red Bull put up for people to see the planes and meet the pilots. Some were kind enough to pose for photos with my kids. If only I'd known then who Mike was; could have had a chat with him about his experiences. It also goes to show how thin the margin of error can be and how close one can get to things ending very badly. Great interview, as always!

[@Aircrewinterview]

Awesome! Thanks mate.

[@rick9329]

Great candid interview.

[@Aircrewinterview]

Cheers Rick.

[@KRGruner]

One thing that was not talked about here is the significant extra power in F-15Es equipped with the -129 engines. Matt only flew the ones with the -220s, so it's understandable he did not mention that. Also, note that by now most F-15Es have been retrofitted with AESAs, which gives it massively increased capability in both air-to-air and air-to-ground.

[@tedzehnder961]

The best engined F15 planes have 60-70 thousand lbs thrust instead of 44 thousand.

[@KRGruner]

@@tedzehnder961 Please, get informed before posting nonsense. The most thrust any F-15 has is 58K lbs.

[@martinhull3303]

Interesting realistic perspective on the F15E. Great interview.

[@Aircrewinterview]

Cheers, Martin.

[@dougstitt1652]

Thanks A.I good stuff Mr. Hall Thx . Roll in and gun them. sounds fun. but a lot of work to get to the fun tho , hats off to all military pilots !

[@JasonBlack66]

(Sneezing) Oct is the beginning of spring in Au.

[@Maxflight9]

Undefeated red bull air race world champion last 4 yrs

[@albertkelly7129]

lol

[@dropshippilot]

It would have been interesting to get Matt's thoughts on whether the F-15E would have been a better replacement for the F-111 than the F/A-18F.

[@hoghogwild]

Agreed. The fact that Australia had a full fleet of operational F/A-18A/B Hornets would have to be brought up in such a discussion. The F-111's were amazing machines, esp. the Aussie C "Pig" variants.

[@megafauna8374]

It's a no brainer that a small air force like the RAAF with a legacy of F/A-18 operations would replace the F-111 with Super Hornets. Miss the pig though.

[@Templar7832]

What a great guy and a great interview as always Mike! And yeah I''ll just take this Eagle out for laugh boss is that ok? "Yeah sure Matt just bring it back with a full tank."

[@Aircrewinterview]

Cheers!

[@thefrecklepuny]

I have a hankering for the F-15E, too!

[@Aircrewinterview]

It’s a beaut!

[@Kneedragon1962]

Thank you. Loved it!

[@Aircrewinterview]

Thanks!

[@stephenszabo2361]

p.w 220s produce 23,000lbs of thrusts..F15Es use the 229s which use 29,400 lbs of thrust per motor.

[@dougharrison7844]

Sighning an F15 out for the weekend, I wonder how that works. You just land at JFK and say fill er up or does the Air Force send a tanker to meet you?.

[@KRGruner]

Great video!

[@Aircrewinterview]

Thanks Karl!

[@davidsmith8997]

@@Aircrewinterview I like that he wanted to fly the Space Shuttle. Nothing like aiming high!

[@JasonBlack66]

2:38 Strap Bombs? I thought F-15 was mostly A2A? I'm sure there are some modded for bombs. anyone can help me out here?

[@SuperEdge67]

F15E. STRIKE Eagle……was basically an attack aircraft. F15C air superiority.

[@benshakespeare268]

Ah yeah cool story bro 😆 (Wow, what a life he's had!)

[@viperdriver82]

@ 10:51. Are they in burner on the tanker

[@Aircrewinterview]

They are.

[@viperdriver82]

@@Aircrewinterview how come ..Full Mil not enough to keep up with the tanker ??

[@raynic1173]

Matt, give Elon a call, who knows what he's got instore.

[@geronimocha7471]

F-15!! 🤑🤑

[@shanehollander9135]

I’ll take Junk in the trunk for $500 Alex! Ok Butthead, here’s JunkNDTrunk for $500!: “A girl in the back!” Uh . . . Heh heh . . . heh , heh heh . . . “What Beavis wants but will never ever have unless she’s tied up in the trunk!!”