Wonderful 15-minute video tour and explanation of F-15 cockpit and operation
Jul 9, 2020 13:25:18 #
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Jul 10, 2020 08:49:09 #
Thanks for posting. At an air museum, I sat in the cockpits of a WW II P-47 fighter, and and an F-100 jet fighter. What amazed me, is that the instrumentation and controls in the two were almost identical. I suppose that made sense since they were only 15 years apart and totally analog. Not so, in the F-15 where almost everything is digitally controlled.
Jul 10, 2020 08:51:20 #
Excellent! My first thought was, how can they keep all those buttons, switches, gauges, and controls working? I was surprised to hear that the F-15 is that old.
Jul 10, 2020 09:45:59 #
Excellent video. Thanks for posting it. The basic cockpit layout of the flight instruments is very similar to the flight instrument layout in the T-38 I trained in back in 1965-66.
Jul 10, 2020 09:59:24 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Excellent! My first thought was, how can they keep all those buttons, switches, gauges, and controls working? I was surprised to hear that the F-15 is that old.
Yep and still to this day, one of the best... I would not want to go up against her (acft) in a dog fight, chances are I wouldn't be coming home, now ifn I was the Yeager man then all bets or off.......
Jul 10, 2020 12:45:54 #
Los-Angeles-Shooter
Loc: Los Angeles
In 1981 in 'Operation Opera,' Israeli F-16s took out the Iraqi nuclear reactor, with reportedly 14 of 16 bombs on target. The Israelis flew F-15s as cover for the F-16s that did the bombing. If the Iraqis had managed to scramble fighters, the Iraqi pilots would likely have met their 72 virgins and young boys. The F-15 has never been bested in air-to-air combat, and the Israeli pilots are no slouches...
Jul 10, 2020 12:50:40 #
LWW
Loc: Banana Republic of America
sr71 wrote:
Yep and still to this day, one of the best... I would not want to go up against her (acft) in a dog fight, chances are I wouldn't be coming home, now ifn I was the Yeager man then all bets or off.......
Especially had it been fitted with stealth technology. It's a shame the prior regime killed it.
Jul 12, 2020 07:58:35 #
LWW wrote:
Especially had it been fitted with stealth technology. It's a shame the prior regime killed it.
Understand that, but you have to realize that airframe is getting long in the tooth. Unfortunately.....
Jul 13, 2020 08:13:57 #
Jul 15, 2020 22:06:38 #
OleMe
Loc: Montgomery Co., MD
Los-Angeles-Shooter wrote:
http://www.businessinsider.com/former-air-force-fighter-pilot-gives-tour-of-f15-cockpit-2020-7?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=military_select
Great shiw. Thanks.
/Roger
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