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Had the privilege to be in St Louis for the USAF's first flight of the beautiful EX.  This was not the first flight, but the USAF's first flight.

 

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2kEFGDW][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50977244112_590484fb51_k.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2kEFGDW]F-15EX[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/50783024@N07/]D_Jackman[/url], on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2kEF8SY][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50977133856_0bc93cf4a4_k.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2kEF8SY]Balls 01 (F-15EX 001)[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/50783024@N07/]D_Jackman[/url], on Flickr

Also, while I was there, I got to see one of the leased TA-4's that Boeing uses as chase planes:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2kG8ER9][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50993627442_5215142582_k.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2kG8ER9]Boeing TA-4 Chase plane[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/50783024@N07/]D_Jackman[/url], on Flickr

And also got to see F-15QA-002:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2kG8EQc][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50993627387_17250595de_k.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2kG8EQc]QA[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/50783024@N07/]D_Jackman[/url], on Flickr

 

Not bad for Tuesday!  -David

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44 minutes ago, arnobiz said:

Excellent pictures, thank you David! I'm considering making a conversion set for the 1/48 GWH F-15E kit, would anyone be interested? 

Yes!!!!!! I think it would be very popular.

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15 hours ago, arnobiz said:

I don’t think so, it has regular F-15E tail fainrings and engines

 

What I see is

GE engines

Longer ECM/RWR antennas sandwiching them

Left stab has sleek fairing instead of normal torpedo one

Fairings besides the canopy

 

Nearly everything present on SA and SG variants

 

Luigi

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4 minutes ago, Mizar said:

 

What I see is

GE engines

Longer ECM/RWR antennas sandwiching them

Left stab has sleek fairing instead of normal torpedo one

Fairings besides the canopy

 

Nearly everything present on SA and SG variants

 

Luigi

It looks like we're not talking about the same one: The left aircraft is an F-15EX, the right one a regular F-15E with some additional test equipment (orange areas) 🙂

 

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5 hours ago, Mizar said:

 

What I see is

GE engines

Longer ECM/RWR antennas sandwiching them

Left stab has sleek fairing instead of normal torpedo one

Fairings besides the canopy

 

Nearly everything present on SA and SG variants

 

Luigi

 

The profile of the outer sides of the upper engine nacelles (closest to the vstabs) looks different on the EX, assume to accommodate a difference in engines.

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10 hours ago, arnobiz said:

It looks like we're not talking about the same one: The left aircraft is an F-15EX, the right one a regular F-15E with some additional test equipment (orange areas) 🙂

 

 

I was talking about the prototype with Eglin(?) markings 😄

 

this one cause they both have Eglin markings

 

Luigi

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