F-15 Eagle Thread

[Air Force Brat]

Is that Air Force Brat in the cockpit?

Why yes, I am accelerating to about 400 knots before I do that hard pull into the Viking One Departure at Lambert International, straight out the top of the TCA, like a cork out of a bottle of Champagne! BOOM! yeah, BHO took my Raptor away from me, (times are tough here in Central Obamastan), so I had to go back to my one true LOVE!

I'm trying to convince the Boeing Boys to build me an SE with the canted tails so I won't miss the Raptor quite so bad??? so far, I'm not having much luck??? but hey, this chick still has two very pretty perky tails! she looks great for her age! I'm trying to get the red, white, and blue factory demo bird out of mothballs!

 

[kwaigonegin]

Why yes, I am accelerating to about 400 knots before I do that hard pull into the Viking One Departure at Lambert International, straight out the top of the TCA, like a cork out of a bottle of Champagne! BOOM! yeah, BHO took my Raptor away from me, (times are tough here in Central Obamastan), so I had to go back to my one true LOVE!

I'm trying to convince the Boeing Boys to build me an SE with the canted tails so I won't miss the Raptor quite so bad??? so far, I'm not having much luck??? but hey, this chick still has two very pretty perky tails! she looks great for her age! I'm trying to get the red, white, and blue factory demo bird out of mothballs!

I can get you a photo of the SE if you like.

 

[Air Force Brat]

I can get you a photo of the SE if you like.

Yes, I would love that Kwai, wishing I could have joined you for that Star Wars movie.

I have a few pictures and frames from my neighbor who worked for McDonald/Douglas, when he moved he gave me a box of pics, they are all beautiful. F-18 as well, I will have to do a little inventory.

But I do love the Silent Eagle!

I don't remember who I had taken to Lambert, but I sure do remember my first Viking One departure, watching from the main terminal, back in the good old days. Lindy's Mono-Coupe was hanging from the ceiling as well as a replica of the Spirit of St. Louis, I haven't been in that joint but once or twice since 9/11? shame too, it was such a kool place. I would love to walk through the line for the F-18 or F-15.

Speaking of the F-18, I have loved that bird since it was the NorthRupp XP-530.

 

[FORBIN]

Former pilot, you talk as one seems

 

[Air Force Brat]

Former pilot, you talk as one seems

General Aviation pilot, Cessna's, Piper's, Beechcraft, and ONE Mitsubishi Mu-2, talk about a rice rocket??? currently flying a 1946 Ercoupe for fun, still Cessna's, etc.

I am rather certain I could manage an F-15, F-18, F-22 around the patch and local, probably do okay on the aerobatics up to about 5 or 6 Gs. LOL actually the F-22, F-35 would likely be easier to fly than the 4th gens?

I have actually been around those Mig-29s that are on my avatar, and messed around with lots of old airplanes and crashed a USAF C-130E flight simulator, the real deal, cockpit windows painted "black" in and out, at Sewart AFB in Tenn. My Dad was an IP in the C-130A-Es, and he also flew the first MC-130E Combat Talon in Saigon, where he worked out of the US Embassy?? He was "tagged" to be the "Air Attache" to the Ambassador of Chile, but called the "Coup d' etat" months before it happened.

My DADDY told me, "all airplanes fly alike", so far, he's right, but that Mitsubishi killed a "best friend", two weeks after the last time I flew it. She was fast, but a "treacherous "ole bag", and you can quote me on that, you had to man-handle her, she was NO LADY!

oh and I played aircraft mechanic for several years on the night shift, all by my lonesome?? well, I had an occasional guest and lots of kool airplanes to keep me company and "play with". Heh! Heh! Heh!

oh, and airplanes are not platforms or programs, so my by line should be??

"The Wing is the Thing" and yes I have a very high level of "tune" when it comes to things that fly, I can tell the good ones from the bad ones, I can't do the math, but I can fly them rather well most days? although I have been humbled from time to time. Have a good day Bruda, and Merry Christmas to all. Come over to visit and I'll let you fly that Ercoupe!

 

[Hyperwarp]

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OT:

How many G' can you max in a centrifuge? I usually start vomiting when the car I travelling in takes a few shape turns .

 

[Air Force Brat]

OT:

How many G' can you max in a centrifuge? I usually start vomiting when the car I travelling in takes a few shape turns .

I scared my little brother in that Ercoupe the other day and he is a great pilot?? I like to pull a few Gs and the first thing I do in a new bird, is give her a couple of hard pulls right and left. I enjoy those very steeply banked turns, and yes I know what an airframe feels like when you begin to "load it up" with Gs, remember a 60 degree bank translates to 2 Gs? and I always go for at least 90 degrees if possible, preceeded by about a 2G pull up rolling into a very steep bank, great fun, and kinda let it fall through the turn, never allowing the airspeed into the yellow, certainly NEVER the red, and I never push an older airframe.

No desire to be a test pilot, and all the respect in the world for design/development engineers, and yes I have been scared in an airplane by some of my own buds, even my old man??? LOL

 

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One of the most important programs that the U.S. Air Force is undertaking is far from glamorous and comes with a funny name: Talon HATE. But this podded system will be vital for eliminating communications barriers between the F-22 and F-15C/D fleets, as well as other weapon systems. It’s showing for the first time on the belly of an Operational Test F-15C flying out of Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Here’s how it works.

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, and Boeing is doing just that with this new communications and sensor pod system.

The Talon HATE (and by the way, nobody seems to know what that stands for) system includes air-to-air, air-to-ground and satellite data links. Not only will this large pod work as an essential communications bridge and data-fusion center, but it also provides America’s F-15C/D Eagle fleet with a serious sensor enhancement via the installation of an Infrared Search and Track system (IRST) at the 17 foot-long, 1,800 pound pod’s forward tip.
Talon HATE will work in a very similar way as the Air Force’s

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, which is currently deployed on Air Force E-11 and EQ-4 as well as NASA WB-57 aircraft today, but in a tactical instead of strategic one.

 

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...Talon HATE. But this podded system will be vital for eliminating communications barriers between the F-22 and F-15C/D fleets, as well as other weapon systems.

According to the article will that mean the F-22 will be getting the same version as the F-15C/D or will it be stealth coated considering this isn't a drop tank like pod?

 

[Brumby]

According to the article will that mean the F-22 will be getting the same version as the F-15C/D or will it be stealth coated considering this isn't a drop tank like pod?

I don't believe the F-22 will be getting the pod. The Talon Hate is part of the 5th-to-4th capability initiative because currently the F-22 can receive and not broadcast via link 16 (which will compromise its stealth). In other words, the pod is to enable the legacy planes to receive the fusion data from the F-22. The downside is the pod comes with IRST which the F-22 doesn't have currently.
What is unclear to me is whether this pod will facilitate communication between the F-22 and F-35 as currently they can't communicate directly due to different waveforms used in IFIL and MADL and how this fits into the MAPs communication architecture.