Here are a plethora of Eagle images. Enjoy!
Here are a plethora of Eagle images. Enjoy!
Still the baddest bad boy there is.
Cool post! :-)
I’m going to add it to my favorites.
What the article doesn't talk about is the training/employment philosophy that went with the aircraft. You were expected to never lose an engagement to another aircraft.
It has since been replaced by the F-22. Not enough of them though.
South Korean pilots are likely to top that table by the end of the decade.
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just like its nominal predecessor, the F-111
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Somewhere in my book collection, I have a small book on failed aircraft.
I remember that after all the work on the F-111, one military officer
said (in so many words) “All the thrust in Christendom couldn’t
turn the F-111 into a fighter!”.
True or not, it was an interesting comment.
If only everybody now wasn't flying Sukhoi's
Somebody once told me that if you don't control the high ground, you don't control sh@t. We better start controlling near earth orbit, or we're toast.
5.56mm
...designed without role compromise and created for its pilot above all. The F-15 Eagle has since matured and it is without doubt the world's foremost air superiority fighter, having destroyed scores of opponents, from Foxbats to F-4s, in aerial combat without ever sustaining losses.Thanks myknowledge, but if Zero lurks here, he'll take the hint and have all of them scrapped, or shipped to Russia.