F-15QA Flight Demo

[ThomasP]

Ran across this the other day and thought some people might be interested.


View: https://youtu.be/Ar6f4Pw3UHs

 

[MIflyer]

Do y'all realize the F-15 is 51 years old? That is, since its first flight in 1972.

So we built the F-22, once again tried to stuff multiple missions in one airplane, with Stealth added, and now we are buying more F-15's. Have we ever done that before?

Note we are still building F-16's as well, and it is only about 4 years newer than the F-15.

 

[SaparotRob]

We were still building P-40s while the Mustang and Thunderbolt were being manufactured.

 

[ThomasP]

Does rebuilding B-52s count? It will soon be flying after a 5th(?) rebuild, and will outlast its successor.

 

[MIflyer]

We were still building P-40s while the Mustang and Thunderbolt were being manufactured.

But we were not still building any of them in 1990.

I guess the C-130 probably has the longest production run of any US military aircraft. They are still building versions of the J-3 Cub, although mainly homebuilts, and versions of the Ercoupe went into production in 1940 and the last ones were built around 1970. Beech Bonanzas were built for an even longer period.

 

[rochie]

Ran across this the other day and thought some people might be interested.


View: https://youtu.be/Ar6f4Pw3UHs

pretty impressive stuff