Thank you for your service of our country which I love!

Thank you for your service .

Thank you for your service Sir!

Same

Pratt& Whitney F100 engines, as older F‐16s too I go to Nellis AFB and at perimeter gate on landings overhead you hear intermittent whiz and short bursts of roar from throttle adjustment especially landing in crosswind days.

Yeah it's great

Agreed

I'm shocked at just how loud that sound is. I can't count the number of times I've heard that sound over the sound of the engines as SJ F15Es are on approach to land.

I grew up in the flight path of Fresno Airport. I definitely remember F-102's, and my earliest memories 'might' be F-86's.

I too grew up by the airport and can remember the 106’s being the main jet. I was lucky enough to go on a field trip in elementary school to the ANG. Got to sit in the flight trainer/simulator and cockpit of the 106.

First tail number was built in 1972. I've worked avionics on 15s since 1982

@@richardunger2177 Yes Sir, I was a crew chief at Holloman 79-82

How do they compare against the F-16?

Try 51 year old design. 1972

@@winchestermodel7044 I typed: "39 year old jet", tail # 84017 Im not aware of any A models still flying

Thank You for building Freedom…….Ret MSgt USAF

Grandpa BUFF says hi

With the retirement of the legendary F-15C looming we'll probably see plenty of bright liveries to commemorate the type

I honestly think it’s ugly, I argue the USAF Thunderbirds F-16s are the most patriotic fighters in the U.S..

Enjoy it while it lasts! They’ll have rainbow 🌈 f-35’s out soon!

Somebody has to do it.

Reduce or increase the volume of air depending on speed and angle of attack.

@@DTeichman Thank you.

They taxied to a disclosed area before takeoff.

It’s called EOR…end of runway. There are crew chiefs and weapons guys down there that give a last look, shake things down and pull the pins. Did it for 6 years. You don’t have “unsafe” munitions on the flight line where they park. Inert or not, they are treated as live. SOP. The tanks have impulse carts (cartridges) in them so the pilot can drop them if need be…and they are explosive..that’s why those are pinned.

These are the C models

They move to slow down the air to subsonic speed when the jet goes supersonic. Jet engines cannot ingest sonic and supersonic air.

Most Air National Guard operate out of civilian airports, and Hickam AFB in Hawaii shares runways with Honolulu International Airport. The 144th is Ca ANG.

@@briansonnenfelt7125 Oh, okay.

F-14 first flew in 1970 and the F-15 in 1972 so yes they came out around the same time but Navy jets wear out fast because they often fly over the ocean with all the salt water air, they take hard hits when landing on carriers. Also F-14's required about 40 hours of maintenance on the ground for every hour they were in the air. F-15's don't fly over the ocean as much, they never land on carriers and only about 12 hours of maintenance for every hour they're in the air. That's just 3 reasons and I'm sure there are more. I miss the F-14. Saw it many times as a kid. My all-time favorite plane.

They pull them at EOR…end of runway. I used to do that.

Jet fuel starter…turns the gear box on the engine. Then repeats for the other engine…I copied a detailed description below. The F-15 uses a smaller jet engine, that is mounted to a gearbox, through a bulkhead, situated between the engines. The smaller Jet engine, is known as the JFS, or Jet Fuel Starter. The gearbox is called the CGB, or,Central Gear Box. Other components related to the starting of aircraft engines, are the JFS bottle(of which there are 2), the AMAD, or Airframe Mounted Accessory Drive, and the PTO(Power Take Off) shaft. The Bottles are filled with hydraulic fluid, that is put under pressure, by nitrogen pumped into the apparatus. They are connected to a T-handle, in the cockpit. The AMADs are mounted on bulkheads, directly in front of the engines, and are mated through the bulkhead, with the PTO shaft. On engine start, the pilot turns on the starter switch, to energize the system, and pulls the T-handle, forcing the pressurized hydraulic fluid through the CGB, to spin the JFS. Fuel is routed to the JFS, and an igniter fires the engine. Once operational, the JFS then spins the gearbox. On the throttle are 2 finger lift switches, designated for each engine. Lifting the switch extends a shaft, from the gearbox, to a coupler on the AMAD, called a pawl carrier. This spins the gears inside the AMAD, which then spins the PTO shaft, and in turn, the engine. Once the combustion section of the engine fires up, the pawl carrier disconnects Pilot pulls the finger lift on the unstarted engine, and the process repeats. The JFS cuts off automatically after both engines have started.

It could be a transponder for a training range.

It is ACMI Pod.

That plane has no Aim-9’s on it…I was a weapons troop in the USAF and see no Aim-9’s…curious to know why they didn’t put the canards on the 120’s…inert or not, we always put them on after we loaded them.

@@justing42 Is that what I'm seeing then? Amraams?

If you zoom in at 3:01 you can just make at an AIM-9. What is the point of the AIM-120’s without the fins? Saving a step on having them ready for action on the non-alert aircraft maybe? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Airflow scheduling to the fan section. Airflow must be subsonic to prevent compressor stall.