Slartibartfast Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 Just finished The F-15 Exposed, vol 2 and would like clarification on a couple of points. 1) The ECS vent grill behind the cockpit -- from what material is it made? 304SS? 316SS? Ti? It obviously sees high temps if it's left unpainted. 2) Is the Avionics Status Panel found in all Eagle nose bays or only the Strike Eagle? The photos and text in the book don't make this clear to me. TIA Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ol Crew Dog Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 19 hours ago, Slartibartfast said: Just finished The F-15 Exposed, vol 2 and would like clarification on a couple of points. 1) The ECS vent grill behind the cockpit -- from what material is it made? 304SS? 316SS? Ti? It obviously sees high temps if it's left unpainted. 2) Is the Avionics Status Panel found in all Eagle nose bays or only the Strike Eagle? The photos and text in the book don't make this clear to me. TIA 1) the material used on the Louver for the Secondary Heat Exchanger exhaust does not discolour with heat, the heat from the exchanger is not very hot. In fact on the Primary Heat exchanger exhaust aft on the jet under the horizontal stabs we would check on launch by running our hands to verify it is blowing. Good enough to warm our hands in the winter and dry our gloves. 2) All F-15's have the Avionics Status Panel (ASP) in the nose wheel well from the A Model to SA and K. It's how we had certain systems trouble shot and reflect internal malfunction or even suspected OverG's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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