[martin_fierro]

[bill1952]

How does the JSF stack up against our current inventory, excluding the Raptor?

[EagleUSA]

The F-15 has alot of credentials -- it would not hurt to have more. It is cheap to build, very reliable, good multi-mode fighter/bomber --- just a good airplane. Heck, look how long the F-4 Phantom lasted us.... :-)

[SlowBoat407]

The design is 30 years old and should be scrapped immediately and never flown again. I can't believe they're still putting this thing up in the air.

Oh, sorry, I thought this was a space shuttle thread.

[KarlInOhio]

Since Boeing merged with Rockwell which had merged with North American, maybe Boeing can also build some P-51s or some F-86s for the Air Force.

The real question is "Does the Air Force have enough F-15Es to use as tactical bombers until the JSF is in production?" Since the F-22 is being fielded, I wouldn't even think about building the F-15 as a fighter anymore.

[Pukin Dog]

And so it begins. (chuckle)

See ya, JSF.

[Junior]

That would be a boon for the F-15 program. Production of the storied combat plane will end in 2008, unless Boeing wins more orders. St. Louis defense workers have made more than 1,500 of the F-15s. The first F-15A flight was made in 1972.

That's about 45 planes a year. Not a lot.

[bill1952]

*ping* Hey. It's not about this baby

but maybe you have a thought on my post 4?

[nairBResal]

"Still, some influential members of Congress "

When you see these words, start running.

[Terpfen]

[Aeronaut]

[jordan8]

Buying more F-15s would work against procuring F-22s etc., politically speaking, so it isn't going to be done.

[Ashamed Canadian]

If my government was smarter, we should buy up some of these, they're still better than what we have, which is basically 120 or so F-18's in various states of disrepair. But then, that is if my government was smarter.

[Better Dead Than Red]

Given the title of this thread I am suprised nobody has posted the pic of the IAF F-15 that managed to make a safe landing after losing an entire wing.

[Shazbot29]

Best/worst/too old/whatever.

The F-15 was, quite simply, the most beautiful aircraft ever flown and will hold that title forever. Graceful and elegant, like a swan, it owned the skies for 30 years and still is better than everything except the JSF amd F-22.

And the latter 2 may be more effective, but the F-15 will always be remembered as master of the sky for her day and a beauty forever.

She has some life left, since who can afford her only rivals?

[Criminal Number 18F]

Boeing has mismanaged every asset and program they got when they bought McD-D, except when someone from McD-D (like Stonecipher, who moved the company to a city with NO GOOD AIRPORT, before he got caught banging -- and promoting -- some marketing bimbo) was mismanaging it.

By the way, before Stonecipher got caught with his pants down, literally, he made every single employee sign an ethics pledge. What a phony.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[BurbankKarl]

Of course we need more of them....what kind of question is that? More F16s too.

The Nat Guard ones on Ready status have all sorts of problems.