When An F-15 Eagle Climbed Faster Than a Space Rocket

[@juicyj9357]

Calling a completely naked F-15 the "STREAK EAGLE" is actually the most logical thing I've ever heard. Bravo Air Force.

[@dukecraig2402]

It was the 70's after all, the decade of streaking.

[@AntonDVasiliev-ss1ie]

freak eagle

[@MainInternetUser]

​𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 👅

[@JisK7]

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[@David.C.Velasquez]

Definitely fitting. My first thought, was the streak that pilot must have had in his briefs, after a ride like that.

[@BigRig003]

That raw metal looks killer. Almost like a early ironman suit.

[@southernsteel4476]

It's just like my marvels!

[@Oceanrex]

Looks Star Wars-esque

[@herblopez71]

💯

[@Raycho7]

I'm surprised no one has taken your comment as an opportunity to tell us in detail about the materials 😂 I'd be interested in hearing!

[@Integritys_Sum]

I thought so

[@AKDevilman]

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.

[@LIE4ME]

Thanks for that additional info. WOW. General Dynamics F-15 might be the 🐐!

[@samhain4399]

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.

[@victorkreig6089]

It's called a windshield not a windscreen Screens have holes in them, a windshield does not have holes

[@user-cy3tr8eu8t]

On fighter jets it’s called a canopy.

[@rya3190]

​@@victorkreig6089Wouldn't the lament have perforations? I might be thinking of a different kind of shielding, though...

[@GlitchyGamers18]

Saturn V: takes astronauts to the moon F15: And I took that personally

[@CountryMusicObsessor-m4g]

Now that's funny 🤣

[@TheAsdffaaa]

Have to say, that saturn v started from standstill, and went to +200000 ft in 150seconds having 7,2mach speed after that, and peaked 4g in accerelation

[@quietbearcasey178]

I'm proud to say that I helped build the F-15, F-18, and AV-8B in Saint Louis, MO back in the 80's and 90's.

[@r0n718]

That’s pretty cool. What part of building these aircraft were you involved in?

[@quietbearcasey178]

@@r0n718 I made sure that the right tools went with the parts to the correct production stations in the manufacturing plant.

[@r0n718]

@@quietbearcasey178👍

[@shadmansudipto7287]

You helped destabilize peaceful countries and turn them into dictatorships.

[@twwtjohns]

That's something to be really proud of.

[@SternLX]

I'm very familiar with that program. Fun fact, it only stopped climbing because the compressors were about to stall due to lack of atmosphere.

[@toolbaggers]

Fun fact - Somebody only stops breathing when drowning due to the lack of atmosphere.

[@pottyputter05]

​@toolbaggers not exactly the same thing, people don't have to create lift

[@growalnuts9880]

It supposedly breaks most mig25 records except speed. The mig reached 123,000 but the f15 and YF-12 and SR71 broke that one supposedly.

[@growalnuts9880]

Mig 25 could never beat the YF12 or SR71 at mach 3.6 plus.

[@tristanbarnhill9793]

​@@toolbaggersbasically the same thing

[@sebastianrook5478]

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!

[@princybella5386]

Why do you think They wouldn't put more Powerful Engines on the F-4 After they became available.

[@Mr371312]

The f16 is great on a global level, but OK by US military standards. At least it's probably easy to maintain, judging by exports.

[@musewolfman]

​@@princybella5386probably airframe limitations. Not to mention, adding different tech that the F-4 wasn't designed for.

[@user-hf5bi2dl1c]

What about the F22?

[@thomasprince1143]

BIG F-4 fan here,LOVE that airframe!

[@JonathanRossRogers]

To be fair, the Saturn 5 kept accelerating beyond 100,000 feet. The F-15's pretty fast, but nowhere near the 17,000 mph needed to orbit the earth.

[@crabtrap]

Thats is stupid. If u stuck an F15 in zero atmo(if it could breathe), it too would hit 17,000mph. This was a climb rate in atmo dummy

[@erikbrender3099]

I also wondered if they recognized the difference between the inflight f15 and the starting Saturn. What i want to say (or the way i understood the video) the f15 was in full flight while begin to climb whereas the Saturn took off and accelerated. Or am i missunderstanding it?

[@crabtrap]

@@erikbrender3099 they both started from full stop. Why is that so hard to understand?

[@petermcgill1315]

@@crabtrapand the Saturn V threw 30+ tons to the moon. Why is that so hard to understand?

[@garyeaton5719]

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!

[@SSBNX9]

Good call!

[@kenkitchens931]

Three thousand mile range on that F15

[@mikeprimm4077]

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

[@hardup9809]

​@kenkitchens931 not wide open throttle tho that's probably a 40%cruise

[@nicholaspratt8473]

​@@hardup9809 true

[@ggriesenauer]

Am I the only one that wants to see a squad of F-15's painted up like Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp for real?

[@MC7791]

I would go for that

[@ScottGraham-rm7cb]

O

[@BikerDash]

That would be friggin epic!

[@walterhicksiii3525]

Yessss!!!😊

[@spartan-1210]

I run a starscream livery on my F15 in VTOL vr, and it’s glorious

[@canisrex5142]

The F-4s looked awesome though

[@undertow2142]

The f15 is basically the Chuck Norris of airplanes.

[@alexkatc59]

Su-27s family entered the chat.

[@elmersbalm5219]

​@@alexkatc59 he's right: Chuck Norris is American after all. 😂 As air trucks go, the mig 31 and the Su 34 are my favourites.

[@chevydavidson9220]

I was thinking this plane in particular would be the Will Ferrell since it went streaking. Frank the tank

[@raptorms773]

When astronauts say they have no idea whats it like to be in a rocket shooting straight up, f15 pilots just nod in agreement

[@brucetec6597]

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.

[@nichendrix]

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.

[@somethingoriginal390]

​@@nichendrixthe Soviet plane was made years before the eagle. It's a MiG-25

[@jearlblah5169]

It’s much different. The rocket actually doesn’t need to go up that fast compared to how fast it needs to go sideways to get in orbit.

[@jamesmaddison4546]

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

[@DavidCoxDallas]

it was NAKED! ergo, it streaks! 😆

[@damndirtyrandy7721]

They call me “The Streak”! For those that remember Ray Stevens. He was kind of the Jeff Foxworthy of the decade before Jeff fox worthy

[@carzepp]

Anyone else think the stainless and titanium with copper looks absolutely gorgeous? 28sec in

[@YodasTinyLightsaber]

Dad-joke has entered the chat. :-)

[@TYang3D]

​@@carzeppthe "Royal" Eagle

[@USMC1984]

“Don’t look Ethel!!” To late! “Ah yes they call him the “streak!!!”

[@squidusn71]

I was an f14 mech, but i really like the f15. I think the f15 is the most beautiful bird in every angle.

[@larkop6504]

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.

[@squidusn71]

@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.

[@larkop6504]

@@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.

[@squidusn71]

@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.

[@larkop6504]

@@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.

[@willymac5036]

The F-15 was the first aircraft to ever break the sound barrier while flying straight up. It’s a BEAST.

[@oscargrouch7962]

F-15s were the first airplanes able to accelerate flying straight up.

[@oppu]

That was actually the English Electric Lighting but yes the F-15 is still a monster

[@terenceflanagan1225]

Actually it was the English Electric lighting. In 1956 ..yeah

[@JamesOMalley-hb4tf]

F 14 could do the same thing and BEFORE f15. 😂

[@paulk11227]

Rah

[@dhrekkin9055]

AI's still cant get numbers right

[@Tom_H327]

Well, it didn't say, the F 1 5. So, I guess it's getting better.

[@russbell6418]

Yep. Pretty annoying. Why can’t these jokers read their own script?

[@toolbaggers]

@@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?

[@JC-dt7jv]

​@toolbaggers I don't fly them because they won't let me. It's not by choice. -Engineer

[@local_authority]

I don't fly them coz they're not safe - Boeing engineer

[@jameskirk3]

The F15 is still a badass. It's an amazing jet.

[@FoxMagi]

The fact that an F-15 LOST A WING and STILL landed shows how badass AF it was!

[@matthewdyer1568]

Literally nothing faster (fighter jet. calm down black bird fan boys. I’m one of you too) has been built.

[@IsfetSolaris]

@@matthewdyer1568 Here before a Russian fanboy claims the MiG-25 is faster because of a propaganda video XD

[@Archer957]

​@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

[@kinocorner976]

@@Archer957You forget to mention it was a brick that fell apart.

[@jonathanthompson5710]

The F-15 has the craziest development story of all time. Pure American "we'll fucking show you buddy".

[@papasan7169]

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.

[@10hunterLab]

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.

[@johntheclyde2816]

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.

[@10hunterLab]

@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.

[@willcal2738]

the pilot had to have had a titanium heart and steel veins.

[@USMC1984]

“Look out Ethel!!” Too late! “Ah yes, they call him the streak!”

[@BaronNate]

look at that, look a t that, LOL

[@thisiswhatilike54]

Boogity, boogity

[@Raeodor]

@@BaronNate fastest thing on 2 wings.

[@bpaul1201awesome]

hahah thanks for the reference! That brings back some memories of that comedian!

[@Tyrannosaurus_STFU_III]

Fantastic reference, Vern....

[@-BuddyGuy]

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.

[@jankomuzykant1844]

👍🤣

[@jonnie106]

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!

[@brentengelhart5]

We would stop what we were doing to watch that show at Holloman. What power!

[@Michael-kt2fk]

That is freaking amazing engineering. I bet the pilot loved flying this incredible jet

[@calvingifford9442]

Believe me, they still do!

[@revmsj]

I’ll bet it would be my last run as I’d pass out and be killed. I gotta know the pilot’s G loading on this climb…🤔

[@dusansurovsky4014]

​@@revmsjthere is no G, he is go straight up and SU 27 hold all claim record

[@ChillaRibbit]

@@dusansurovsky4014 ok buddy

[@matthewdyer1568]

The f-15 doesn’t fly with ‘lift’ like standard aircraft. It beats the atmosphere into submission.

[@TacPhoenix]

It's fast in a hurry

[@sillyhumanoid]

the air better stop resisting

[@Xsiondu]

Thought that was how helicopters flew

[@DominikBrum]

In thrust we trust

[@Xsiondu]

Any idea how much that paint weighed? Can't be less than 300 pounds could it?

[@Torta--is--PLUR]

Starscream was a perfect choice for this decepticon

[@crazyman8472]

The F-15 always had a good power-to-weight ratio, and those wings give a lot of lift. 😎

[@robrutherfordfit]

Looks so good paintless! 🥵🔥

[@dumpywhite]

Looks like something straight outta Star Wars

[@jackdurden466]

Really looks like a transformer to me, just like Starscream. Only without the tattoos.

[@tristanolson118]

Oro y plata ❤

[@rollyro71]

Yup badass

[@blindbrad4719]

Especially on every radar system available to mankind…

[@ArkadiosTheodulus]

This jet is on display at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, among hundreds of other aircraft. Well worth a visit!

[@crabtrap]

Oh shit i was just there 2months ago!

[@76horsepower]

Yep, though they did paint it.

[@DarthXavius]

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.

[@76horsepower]

@@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.

[@TheTechnoPilot]

We need a new F-15EX Streak Eagle!

[@helluvatime4562]

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.

[@alanwhiteside410]

Good memories with your dad. 😎👍

[@helluvatime4562]

@@alanwhiteside410 Yes he was an amazing man. WW2 veteran retired from the Airforce. We had good times on that base.

[@brettdavies-young7102]

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.

[@chikkenbonz]

Don't tell OP this! You'll mess up his video.... 🤫🤭

[@xenophagia]

I wish you wrote the second part little more coherently.

[@alanwhiteside410]

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.

[@383mazda]

@@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).

[@usmc-veteran73-77]

January 1975, I was stationed on Okinawa at Camp Foster. I used to watch and listen to the SR-71 take off and land at Kadena Air Force Base. Semper Fi

[@williamsturgell3294]

My dad was stationed there at one time.

[@usmc-veteran73-77]

@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?

[@williamsturgell3294]

@@usmc-veteran73-77 Air Force

[@mikemwanza8027]

Good for you. I was moving in my fathers veins.😂😂😂

[@usmc-veteran73-77]

@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

[@albertoamoruso7711]

In 1986 the Soviet Su-27 broke all the 8 records the F-15 established

[@mrgod2u701]

BFD, 11 years later.

[@homuneko5070]

​@@mrgod2u701bfd. To date, after almost 40 years some of his records have still not been broken

[@WeTheLittlePeople]

Wow, that was such a good idea! Talk about marketing bonanza. Strip it totally down, and set all the records as it needed to compare to the Mig-25. those stats weren't just for Guiness, that was for the Soviets.

[@StraightKnots]

What happens when you make a muscle car that can fly. Then put a boat load of weapons on it. You get the F-15 undisputed King of The Skies. 104-0

[@fZionists78]

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.

[@freakfactor7244]

I was a 15 fuel tech at Langley in the late 70’s. IMPO still is the badest of the bad. Their saying was “ we fight where others dare to fly”

[@duffstrodamus3233]

Undefeated

[@djs2006]

I was, too. 1 FMS -> 1 CRS.

[@freakfactor7244]

@@djs2006 1st tac & 1st ems for me

[@Maverickf22flyer]

And then the Su-27 P42 came in and put your Eagle down.

[@N_D_RUS]

💯

[@astartesfanboy5294]

good job, you had to special build an aircraft specifically to break records because none of your stock fighters stripped could do it. Making something specifically to break the record set by a normal fighter just stripped down isnt the brag you think it is lmao. Not our fault your stock SU-27 is too shit to do it on its own.

[@AndyBonesSynthPro]

That's a Mad Max F-15. Probably the coolest thing ever

[@pdexBigTeacher]

And that was with the original PW100 engines. Imagine if they repeated those feats with the PW-229's

[@undertow2142]

My first thoughts exactly. Aren’t they nearly double they nearly double the thrust of the og engines now?

[@theemperorofmankind3739]

@@undertow2142 Not true. The original rngines produced 25000lbs of thrust each with the new ones producing 29000lbs. More but not double.

[@strang1124]

LOVED working sheetmetal on F-15C, D, E models at Elmendorf AFB, AK.😊

[@GenXerReacts]

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

[@quietbearcasey178]

@@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.

[@Citadin]

@@GenXerReacts hilarious!

[@GreenEyedRogue]

@@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.

[@travisbakeriii3053]

​@GenXerReacts lol. I wish I remembered that. I grew up in Anchorage at that time and heard the jets all the time flying out of Elmendorf.

[@YeetLord666]

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

[@feedingravens]

That (No) paint scheme is the dream for any plastic modeler that is into Alclad metallic paints. So many different shades and hues - wonderful.

[@thegoods1r694]

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

[@Raansu]

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.

[@toxico1152]

The first fighter with more thrust than its overall weight

[@Dylanear]

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

[@PMA65537]

Earlier ? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning

[@Rossboy2112]

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

[@hughwright4422]

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 🦇⚡️)

[@stevechapman9690]

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…

[@bobbeezel2593]

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

[@ASSASSIN19923]

mine is F14 Tomcat

[@idadho]

These Dumb Bass AI narrations are horrible.

[@paulgunn7415]

Please put an actual human back in with the narrations. The computer can’t tell the difference in speaking similar words and numbers, a human can.

[@sparky2057]

83 thousand hundred and twenty

[@mcahill135]

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.

[@doodskie999]

A naked eagle and naming it streak is pure genius.

[@johnb2945]

I remember sitting in Commander’s Call @ Offutt when they showed the newsreel of that flight. Much whooping and hollering.

[@LazlowRave]

I was a sick from school at home during 9/11 after all aircraft were grounded. Bunch of jets roared by. Air Force One was landing at Offutt.

[@kiowablue2862]

For me it was Commander's Call at Mather. Yep, The Eagle kicks ass!

[@no1bandfan]

The Saturn rocket probably also weighed 100 times more than the F-15.

[@skylerjr2648]

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.

[@crossefire01]

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.

[@MattH-wg7ou]

​@@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!

[@ticopowell]

​@@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

[@samcostanza]

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.😮

[@trashpanda314]

The F-15 was and still is one bad ass air superiority fighter. Looks like it will continue to be for decades to come with the introduction of the all new F-15EX.

[@eschmid]

I remember that day. I was a student at university of North Dakota. Minus 20 degrees and what a sonic boom. Woke us all up.

[@todddillon613]

That's, a whole lotta Rosie! Brilliance, Men! Well Done and Thank You! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@kevintucker3354]

Oh yes they call it the streak, Boogedy, Boogedy!! 😂

[@samcostanza]

A man of culture and taste, I see.

[@lewdawg1970]

Fastest thing on two feet look at look at that they call him the streak!!!!

[@michaellavery4899]

They pulled off those stunts simultaneously? The budget must have been enormous.

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

Shedding its weights like it's Rock Lee, it's gonna go FAST, and HIGH!

[@lyrakeltica]

I love our Air Force and their jets! Thanx for this video 🎉 tĥey brighten my day.

[@tesmith47]

We pay for it too on 4_15 every year

[@paulcrist7285]

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

[@jojodress]

What an astonishing jet, and pilot! So awesome! Loved reading comments from pros - exciting 😊

[@cytorakdemon]

Saturn 5: "We're going into space." F-15: "We'll escort you."

[@phantomwraith1984]

The F15 has a greater thrust to lift ratio, meaning it doesn't need to be aerodynamic. It just beats the atmosphere into submission

[@brianrolfe1742]

And that "flat" belly acts like a lifting body...ask the Israeli pilot who saved and landed an F15 with 1 wing lost to a midair collision

[@my-yt-inputs2580]

"Thrust to Weight"

[@phantomwraith1984]

@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

[@my-yt-inputs2580]

@@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.

[@adamwee382]

Sounds crazy that they didnt even paint the thing until you realize the paint on an F-15 weighs about 500 pounds.

[@crissvector8]

Basically F-15 having a level 3 weight reduction kit

[@saville1712]

I couldn't imagine how impressive the sight of that machine would've been at the time.

[@user-ft3yj2oy2s]

That photo over a downtown area is st Louis. My hometown for 55 years. F15 is 104 wins to zero losses in a fight. St Louis builds the best.

[@alanwhiteside410]

Thank you!

[@Mark-lq3sb]

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.

[@justarandomguy5993]

When he said streak I immediately moved my finger to open the comments lol,

[@marykayhiggins8434]

I am pretty sure I saw this very same aircraft in March in the restoration shop at the Museum of the U.S. Air Force. It cool to have a bit more info on its history...thanks for posting!

[@_ian69]

Ik the mid 90s, my dad won airmen of the month (at his base) and won an F-15E ride along. He said it was one of the coolest moments of his life. Literally saw the Oregon coast like he had never seen it before

[@CatMan_7]

Streak is what was left in flight suits after they gave her the spurs. 😹💩

[@kenduncan3221]

Flight suits? They were riding nekkid to reduce weight and give the plane it's name properly!

[@lonniemcqueen4952]

Starscream! (Transformers) 😎👍🏻

[@thenasiudk1337]

Fun fact : F-15 Streak Eagle was intended to beat Soviet's MIG-25 climbing record

[@jjflash2611]

I grew up in the 80s. F-15 to this day is my favorite Jet. Never lost a Dogfight. Never been shot down.

[@martialartssoldier249]

Grandpa buff" oooooooo the kids not gunna like this!" The kid 😮

[@ComputerGeeks-R-Us]

Raise hell praise Dale!

[@martialartssoldier249]

@@ComputerGeeks-R-Us good one florida

[@mtheory85]

Well, the F-15 was and is still to this day one of the most formiddable fighters ever made.

[@Nikolay_Grigoryev]

And all the records set by the streek eagle were beaten by the P-42...

[@c-028]

That would be the F-15’s livery if F-15 exists in Star Wars. 😂

[@MH5XXXX]

AND SHOT down a SATELLITE!! USA STILL ROCKS THE SKY!!

[@samcostanza]

Laughs in "Buns" Nakamura.

[@ScottBrown-zz4sk]

AMERICAS MILITARY STILL AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE NUMBER 1 IN THE WORLD.

[@BBBrasil]

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.

[@cecilwinthorp4038]

I worked at McDonnell Douglas in the 80s and heard stories about this test. I was told the F-15 went vertical so fast, it damaged the runway.

[@andybreglia9431]

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."

[@Smokey-88]

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.

[@Arclite02]

Starship and Super Heavy would like a word about those records...

[@jamessouza7065]

Damn man..Salty over that??

[@alexojideagu]

The Saturn 5 went 10 times faster than the F-15 at its peak speed

[@CFA-44_Nosferatu]

​​​@@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

[@aarinisles]

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”.

[@sens1tiv838]

The F15 is basically just a missile with wings attached to it. There was a time when one of the wings were practically ripped off and the pilot still landed on the airfield a long distance away. Officials couldn't believe it so they conducted tests with only one side of the wing attached to a different plane. It flew almost perfectly. Plus it was the first (and only?) plane that shot down a fricking satellite.

[@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195]

Maybe so but the Saturn 5 weighed over 1 million pounds on liftoff.

[@TheStickinator]

And 7.6 million pounds of thrust.

[@TexJester-no8th]

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.

[@wolfknight1768]

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

[@davidwate6057]

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.

[@wolfknight1768]

@@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

[@davidwate6057]

@@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.

[@kinocorner976]

@@davidwate6057Well, the F-35 will be considered good when it stops shooting it’s pilots out and crashing into fields, okay?

[@Sonnie125]

Naked F-15 .. it’s been caught Streaking 😂😂😂

[@mindful6095]

The machine was an engineering marvel, the pilot who pushed it to the limit, now that guy is a legend

[@ericstyles3724]

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.

[@alanwhiteside410]

All the F-15’s are capable of that not just the Streak Eagle.

[@johnnycab8986]

F22 has considerable more thrust to weight than the F15A.

[@JamesOMalley-hb4tf]

I guess the f 14, all SU 27 family flankers and MiG 29, eurofighter, Rafale, don't exist?? 😂😂

[@selbendersiinge69]

Seems like you dont know many fighters or jetplanes then 😅 dw, happens

[@yianni3251]

Holy Christ! Surpassing Earth’s stratosphere in less than 5 mins is insane to imagine.

[@jacushman]

Mach 2.2 vertically is insanity.

[@humbledone6382]

Climbing to 98k feet… That’s one heck of a pilot.

[@rasgizatulllin1705]

MiG-25 after few months with time record of 190 seconds: "Well, hello there!"

[@JAREALI]

My dad was obsessed with the F-15. Now I see why.

[@Hungry_Box]

They did that with Spitfires in WW2, to "intercept" German planes flying higher...they would force the Germans down to the Spitfires that had guns

[@lfla0179]

"It doesn't need wings to fly, it beats the atmosphere into submission". - The Fat Eletrician.