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I'd love to see a one built up ikar.

Here's the last one I did.:

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I put an interior in, a little intake, gear, and engine detail. I'll try to find another one.

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Additionally all armament and much of the electronics were removed to achieve maximum thrust to weight ratio:

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Photo: nationalmuseum.af.mil

The plane was flown by the pilots assigned to the F-15 Joint Test Force at Edwards AFB but the actual record test flight were done in the cold air above Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota.

I knew one of the pilots, Major McFarland. I worked for him a few years later but by then he had made Lt. Col.

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