F-15 Eagle, Missouri Air Guard, St. Louis, Mo
N 38° 44.589 W 090° 22.279
15S E 728460 N 4291555
This F-15 Eagle is on display outside the Missouri Air National Guard near Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, Mo.
Waymark Code: WMBHC6
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/22/2011
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The Missouri National Guard 110th Tactical Fighter Squadron began using the McDonnell Douglas F-15 "Eagle" in 1991.
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The McDonnell Douglas corporation (now Boeing) is the desiger and manufacturer of the F-15 Eagle. It is a twin-engine, all-weather tactical fighter used to gain and maintain air superiority in aerial combat and is considered among the most successful modern fighters with over 100 aerial combat victories and no losses in dogfights.
The United States Air Force selected the McDonnell Douglas F-15 design in 1967 to meet the military's need for a dedicated air superiority fighter. The Eagle first began flying in July 1972, and entered service in 1976 and is expected to be in service with the U.S. Air Force until 2025.
A useful feature of the F-15 is the "look-down/shoot-down" radar that is able to distinguish low-flying moving targets from ground clutter, and compared to other aircraft of its generation, the F-15 used computer technology with newer controls and displays that lowered pilot workload and required only one pilot, which saved weight. The F-15 has a single canopy frame with clear vision forward, unlike other aircraft availble in the early 1970s.
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"Overview:
F-15C executing a maximum performance takeoff.
The F-15 has an all-metal semi-monocoque fuselage with a large cantilever shoulder-mounted wing. The empennage is metal and composite construction, with twin aluminum/composite honeycomb fins with boron-composite skins, resulting in an exceptionally thin tailplane and rudders with all-moving composite horizontal tail surfaces outboard of the fins. The F-15 has a spine-mounted air brake and retractable tricycle landing gear. It is powered by two Pratt & Whitney F100 axial-flow turbofan engines with afterburners mounted side-by-side in the fuselage. The cockpit is mounted high in the forward fuselage with a one-piece windscreen and large canopy to increase visibility.
The F-15's maneuverability is derived from low wing loading (weight to wing area ratio) with a high thrust-to-weight ratio enabling the aircraft to turn tightly without losing airspeed. The F-15 can climb to 30,000 ft (10,000 m) in around 60 seconds. The thrust output of the dual engines is greater than the aircraft's weight, thus giving it the ability to accelerate in a vertical climb. The weapons and flight control systems are designed so that one person can safely and effectively perform air-to-air combat. The A and C-models are single-seat variants that make up the bulk of F-15 production. B and D-models add a second seat behind the pilot for training. E-models use the second seat for a bombardier/navigator. Visibly, the F-15 has a unique feature vis a vis other modern fighter aircraft in that it does not have the distinctive turkey feather aerodynamic exhaust petals covering its engine nozzles; this is because the design used on the F-15 was balky and problematic and tended to fall off in flight, resulting in a hazard for people on the ground; as a result they were removed. The F-15 suffers a 3% drag penalty without them."