F-15QA tailslide & extreme high alpha demo - Dubai Airshow 2023
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- Опубликовано: 14 ноя 2023
- An F-15 like we've never seen it displayed before...
A Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) F-15QA Ababil (similar to the F-15EX Eagle II) is displayed by Boeing test pilot Jason Dotter at the Dubai Airshow 2023. This is the first time an F-15QA/EX has performed at an airshow.
The F-15QA Ababil is an advanced version of the F-15 developed for Qatar, with AESA radar, a powerful anti-jamming suite, additional thrust, a strengthened fuselage and new flight control software (including full fly by wire, for the first time in an F-15), among other improvements. It was later ordered by the USAF, who requested some minor customisations to the avoinics (for example, swapping the Israeli anti-jamming system for an American EW suite) and named their variant the F-15EX Eagle II. First deliveries of both the F-15QA and F-15EX variants began in 2021.
The aforementioned upgrades to the aircraft, combined with the fact it is flying in a low-drag configuration with pylons and CFTs removed, make the manoeuvrability in this video possible. Perhaps most impressive is the exceptional pitch rate and the transitions from low to high speed (and vice-versa), which together allowed for an unusually compact display which barely left the airfield boundaries.
Video by Adam Landau
Holy moly. I’ve never seen an f-15 maneuver like this. All without thrust vectoring. Amazing.
Back when the C models had low time on the airframes, demos were similar to this. Not quite as complex or high AOA due to the hydraulic controls. But the C models only had low time in the 80s and 90s when I was a kid.
No stores, no pylons, no CFT's, min fuel.. of course, it can do maneuvers we have never seen in a F15
@@jebb125 Don't forgot the newer and larger GE engines producing near 30,000 lbs of thrust each, I ain't surprised. However, still impressive
I’m sure this agility was achieved because these new-built F-15s got fly-by-wire.
@@jebb125 The QA and EX models also have the GE-F110-GE129s dumping out almost 30,000 pounds of thrust per engine in AB, which doesn't hurt. The aerobatics game changer is the combination of GE engines and FBW system. But you're correct in a way. No Eagle is going into harm's way in this video's config.
This airframe was waaaayyy ahead of its time. They got it perfectly 50 years ago.
That's the crazy thing about this demo. The fact that it is such an old design. Yet still relevant today.
Yes, sir!
Ya gotta thank the Soviets for that, if they didn't overestimate Foxbat, Eagle won't be as good as it is today
With that said, this is an updated jet with a better flight control system and engines.
Fighter mafias did a better job by reverse engineering a much better American foxbat😎🇺🇸. Must admit they copied only one soviet jet ever.
F15 with Fly by wire, GE F-110 and removed cft is mind blowing
@@powrplaya3266Unfortunately DCS can only have unclassified planes. They refuse to build anything they don't have public documentation for.
Still waiting for the EF-2000 - that thing will be mind blowing too in dcs i think
That double Immelman out of the slow speed high-alpha pass is absolutely nuts!
I've just watched this video for the first time and just pulled my jaw off my desk after seeing that!
f14d style, that was in dirty configuration
POWWERRR! SPEEEEEEEEED.
Thought exactly the same. Pilot just kept pulling back on the stick and the planes happy to carry on doing whats asked lf it!
Awesome jet
This is the definition of professional photography. Jason is a damn fine pilot as well.
It‘s a cool show however the really impressive thing about modern F15s and especially the F15EX and F15QA is their incredibly advanced AESA radar and their tremendous situational awareness. This is what makes a fairly old design still very capable as an air superiority fighter and as a fighter bomber.
The F15EX is the F15QA. The EX was pulled off the assembly and sold to the USAF.
The Eagle is still a magnificent beast
Wow !! I have been to and seen tons of F-15 demos but never seen it flown like this. It's just incredible that this without thrust vectoring at 0:07 like you see in F-22 ..
Back when F-15 was introduced into service, they used to do hard maneuvers like these, now the older F-15s cannot unless you want to reduce airframe structural integrity. But it nice to know that the newer produced f-15s can do these maneuvers for us to see. On the sidenote, F-15 maneuverabiltiy is comparable to Su-27 but will lose in prolonged dogfight.
@@Boomkokogamez A dogfight is rare, a prolonged dogfight is more unique than rare in modern warfare.
@@Boomkokogamez what dogfight? the Americans have superior BVR capabilities in any situation.
@@BoomkokogamezThe F-15 wins the prolonged dogfight due to how bad the Su-27s thrust to weight is. The only chance the Su-27 really has is doing a high alpha manouvre right after meging and trying to get a HOB fox-2 off, but if that doesnt work then the F-15 will slowly work its way to a winning position due to the way better thrust to weight.
this is the f15ex, it has a different flight control system...
Everything but a flat spin 360! That was some amazing flying.
Not hard to believe. My group commander of my F-16 squadron was in the first F-15 RTU class in the mid 70s and even flew in Israel during the first combat with the plane. He said they did tail slides and cobra maneuvers as confidence maneuvers while training in the plane back in the 70s. I got my first back seat ride in the F-15 in 89’ and we did a “cobra maneuver” to spoof an 18 just pulling lead. We later laughed at all the press the MiG 29 and SU-27 got when the Russians showed off the maneuvers at air shows. Old news. Not really a useful maneuver unless jinking a last second shot but leaves you as a sitting duck. The 16 was AOA limited and unless you stupidly grabbed the MPO switch to show off, all you had to do was got to full burner and climb out of the fight. Keep the nose rating around and the plane appeared right in your sights. Glad the 15 is getting the press it deserves as it still is a top line fighter. I’ll take a 16 for maneuverability but a 15 is king….
I wanted to be a USAF F-15 fighter pilot but I didn't have perfect vision so instead I joined the US Army as a light infantryman that ended up carrying the M-249 SAW in Iraq in 2004. I was basically an F-15 on the ground; very agile, deadly AF, and able to reach out and touch hearts and brains from a distance.
;)
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True, I always thought plane acrobatics and dogfighting were two different things.
Fly by wire is amazing. It has transformed the capabilities of the F-15. The EX for the USAF will have these same maneuvering capabilities also. Amazing.
Will it really perform like this? I thought the QA was different
The F-15QA and F-15EX are identical in terms of their powerplant, flight control system and handling. The only difference (as far as we know) are with some avionics: the F-15EX has a US-specific Operational Flight Program to ensure interoperability with other USAF types and is equipped with the EPAWSS electronic warfare suite rather than the Elbit anti-jamming system found in the F-15QA. Those are the only real differences of note between the two models.
In terms of their press briefing and trade exhibition, Boeing by and large treated this display as an F-15EX demonstration, even though it is a QA. It was flown by an F-15EX test pilot.
This performance features in a 90 minute Airshow Dispatches film, featuring all the displays at the Dubai Airshow 2023, available on our RUclips channel here: ruclips.net/video/6wMyeIhpibE/видео.html
AWSOME!!! Man it’s great to see another fully aerobatic F-15 Demo again!!!
Absolutely... The Es are great but this has been missed!
@@mikoriadThe Es are more B15 than F15
Or even a an F/A-15E. They do have the sound and the vapor, but their nothing like an f-15C or EX without conformal tanks.
@@juanmanuelfc - The primary mission of the F-15E is Air-to-Ground, but it has always been a very capable Air-to-Air jet...make no mistake. It is no where near a B-15.
If not for the phenomenal success of the E model, it's combat record and ability to grow with new technology and weapons, the Eagle would have gone out of production years ago and there would be no F-15EX or QA. Cheers.
This is incredible alpha control with static nozzles. With thrust vectoring, the F-15EX may be able to match F-22 levels low speed controlled rotation.
The Raptor is
1. unstable in pitch and
2. has canted vertical stabilizers with larger rudders
Put all the thrust vectoring you want on an Advanced Eagle, it still won't match a Raptor in the high alpha regime.
Relaxed pitch stability has nothing to do with high alpha flight capability and also canted vertical tails have nothing to do with it, as long as you have TVC but most important a lifting force in the front end f the airplane which the F-15 dies not have.
being able to turn like that at such slow speeds will make it easier for the anti aircraft missile to hit the target :)
@@everythingman987 Well, yeah, it's not meant to; but the fact this airframe can still take control advances and be viable IS saying something. Now, imagine our EX with its radar and ECM suite; in the BVR realm, a Raptor would have its work cut out for it. Add the extra eyes and brain of the EX's WSO, and you'll have a lethal duo indeed!
@@everythingman987 For a jet in which 99% of it (body, wings, vertical stabilizers, etc) was designed in the 1960 - 80s, without super computers.... with only very minor physical change on these newly fabricated (the change is 100% software, radar, avionics, etc), this is actually very impressive.
In fact, I've never seen this big, old, heavy, ancient aircraft fly like this, in the 45 years I've lived in America.
Those Qatari pilots are quite good or they're drunk, to toss this heavy, ancient thing like this, without any fear like that. Normally, only the F-35, F-22, Su-35, Su-57, etc. could do these maneuvers. And the F-35 is the newest, 5th gen, even if it lacks 2D/3D nozzles like the F-22, Su-35/57, etc.
This giant Bronze Age thing was built (#1) to fly even if one wing was torn off --- something very few other fighter jet, especially the highly pampered ones like the F-35 and F-22.... could do ---- (#2) to go almost as fast as the F-22 & use 2 times the fuel while doing it without a care... and (#3) to be so powerful it could launch a small satellite into space from its belly.... but it was not built for slow motion maneuvers like this. Having now seen it, I'm quite impressed by it...
Awesome to see them keep this platform alive and updated. Such an awesome fighter!
There's a good reason they're still producing new F-15 variants for the USAF. Its one hell of an airframe.
It’s great to see what that airframe can do with modern engines and a truly clean configuration. It’s as close as we are likely to see to a modern Streak Eagle.
Fly by wire is the biggest difference, the engines a bit
This is in the same configuration as what the C models used to perform at for Airshows except the modern avionics allows this F-15 to be more stable at slow speeds.
Sorry but no. It's nowhere close to Streak Eagle which flew unpainted and had no systems apart from flight and engine controls.
@@Max_Da_G you obviously didn't actually read what he said.
"It’s as close as we are likely to see to a modern Streak Eagle."
@@mcamp9445 Yes and also because F-15QA are newly produced from 2021-2022 so the airframe are not that old yet and can do hard maneuvers that the older f-15c/f-15E's cannot do unless you wanna reduce the airframe structural integrity and flight hours, unless in combat.
That is intense flight envelope authority… well done with that airframe. Great work with no thrust vectoring.
That's the power of fly by wire.
@@zachansen8293 And a damn good designed airframe, way ahead of its time.
Such a good looking bird after all these years
This was my favorite fighter when I was growing up in the 80s. And it still is today. Glad to see it is still in service.
That is amazing flying. The pilot is making that jet (almost 50 years old) fly around like an F22.
Crazy how little speed it's losing when going vertical and how tight the turns are
I’ve heard it’ll climb to 70,000 feet at 90 degrees nose up while accelerating
@@terryreynolds765 and im almost sure that was the old prototype as well, imagine what it could do now!
that's what greater than 1:1 thrust to weight ratio buys you, acceleration in vertical flight. I'm always impressed by the undefeated Eagle, used to watch them being tested at the factory when I worked on the fighter programs at McAir 30-odd years ago. I sure miss seeing the Eagles disappear into the sky.
Just remember: those uprated engines are working overtime in full afterburner to help with that.
@@terryreynolds765 Nah. You lose a LOT of thrust as you get higher. There's not enough oxygen available so you have to start cutting back on fuel which means less and less thrust.
The magic of having a new controls suite shows you that even old airframes can unlock new tricks.
Check out the F-16 MATV for a true demonstration of what you describe. The F-16 can perform a Cobra and other maneuvers setup like this.
This is what Fly By Wire does for an aircraft. Stunning.
It's more the thrust to weight ratio I would believe. Fly by wire can restrict a pilot.
@@nattadam4171no it’s the FBW
@@nattadam4171 It can, but the goal is care free handling, ie, you can throw the controls around as much as you want and you will get the most the aircraft can give you without exceeding the flight envelope and either losing control or overstressing it, and that's a rather key thing compared to full manual control and a pilot exceeding the limits for even a split second, forcing a lengthy, detailed inspection of the airframe for damage.
@@nattadam4171Nope, TWR allows the airframe to do these maneuvers, but the flight control system is what allows the pilot to execute these maneuvers as well as remaining stable, otherwise they’d have to make thousands of corrections a second even on a stable F15
Mega power ! Diese zwei Triebwerke bringens voll .
WOW!
Lately, all I've seen are F22 & F35 demos and really almost forgot about the speed and agility of this plane.
Regardless, as most others have acknowledged, I've also never seen an F-15 flown like this with so much tight maneuvers, all while maintaining airspeed or simply being able to stall out under control and regain speed so quickly.
This is really awesome and I wonder how it would do using thrust vectoring nozzles?
Great Job guys!!!
It’s the new fly by wire system
You didn't "forget"; the new ones are fly by wire which allows them to do things a pilot cannot do with a non-FBW model.
@@zachansen8293 ..... wishing there could/would have been more updates to the airframe itself when they went to the EX model, such as incorporating a number of awesome features from the Silent Eagle demo unit. That to me would have made some serious progress in keeping the bird alive!
There are A-10 and F-16 demo team at airshows all year long too.
What a beast!!!
2:56 almost like the F22’s signature howl
They look so good clean!
50 years old and still a total BADASS!!!👍🇺🇸
INCREDIBLE!!! Even without Thrust Vectoring...
Brilliant display and superb filming. Waiting to see a much longer video as I have never seen an F-15 doing such maneuvers. Of course, this is a whole different model and an ex-US fighter pilot combination. Thanks from Sri Lanka.
It looks so clean.
I think it still holds time to climb records. Back in the 70s it went from brake release on the tarmac to 92,000 feet in three and a half minutes.
That was probably the Stripped down streak eagle. That doesn't sound that impressive though, many modern fighters will hit 60,000 in 1 minutes. I guess the lower oxygen at the edge really kills performance.
I hope the USAF (bean counters) take notice and re-sets it's original order back. We need these to replace our C models in inventory.
guess why AF ordered F-15EXs...
Excellent show and video, thanks.
That's my all time favorite air craft. All things taken into account.
Incredible. Thanks for sharing 😎
WOW! That pilot is close to pulling off the Pugachev cobra!
F-16 MATV can do the cobra with its upgrades.
Did you know the Swedish were the first to do the cobra, many years before a russian jet was even capable of it?
@@SoloRenegadeyep, the j35 draken was a literal kite lol
Awesome display! Fingers crossed for this to appear at RIAT next year. It's unlikely I know but there's always a chance 🤞
Looks like you got ur wish
Yes indeed! I had start to write the thought off and then saw the post about it. Very exciting and unexpected :)
Of course it isn't official yet but it'll be nice to see something different. It would be the first time an F15 has done a proper display at RIAT since 2007.
These FCS updates on American cold war jets really seems to have given them amazing nose authority. This and the recent Finnish F18 displays are super impressive.
Well, all F-15s can, it just that US-made f-15s airframes are old while F-15QA are new.
That was very cool! Thanks for this
I love the sight of Democracy flying
The F15 is my all time favorite and the baddest jet to ever fly the skies.
This is one hell of a display by an elite pilot.
Seen almost the same stuff in the late '70s. The Eagle only gets better! 👍👍
Many thanx "This is Flight"!
I've been and seen plenty of F-15 demonstrations, but never seen it flown like this.
What an Awesome demo, I have never seen the F15 flown like that!
Superb !!!
Truly amazing camera work. Outstanding.
The thrust of those engines actually crackles like a rocket.
Impressive stuff!
it looks like an f22 in some angles, so beautiful
The fly by wire made all the difference in these new variants
Beautiful
That is is awesome!!
Very impressive!!!!!!!
I love the sound ❤
Wow! I knew that the Eagle was maneuverable, but not to that level. Awesome work by the Pilots and the people who maintain the aircraft.
It wasn't until the recent fly-by-wire updates.
F15 on my Christmas wishlist - checked 😍
Awesome! The EX should be very similar!
The EX has all the same characteristics + better electronics as I read a few minutes ago.
EX is the same from an airframe, engines, and flight control perspective.
The F-15 will be 52 this coming year. It’s a remarkable fighter even now.
I have always loved the f15.had a model as a boy. Amazing.
That is so so Awesome...
Amazing.
Magnificent aerial Display 😊
The only fighter to have never experienced a single loss in combat. God Bless America.
Best looking planes ever: F-15 and P-51.
Boeing should repeat this demo but next time with CFT's and 4 CFT mounted AMRAAM's. Obviously, won't be as crisp a display but more representative of real world capabilities. The real game changers are under the skin: FBW, monster AESA, faster mission computer, EPAWSS/electronic warfare gear etc.. That and the AIM-120D/AIM-260 should give it first look, first shot, first kill vs. all enemy counterparts, save truly stealth platforms. The EX will likely have the same (i.e. BIG) RCS although there's been talk of some RCS reduction measures. In any case, absolutely awesome machine!
An amazing piece of engineering
Proud to be one of the makers of this beast machine
Such a talented pilot...
pure power
Strange seeing an Eagle doing this 😊
Kudos to the camera operator. It gave great perspective of what that thing can do. Hard to believe the EX isn't a dog fighter.
It is, it can do both air to air and air to ground
Its a strike aircraft that doesn't need an escort. Or stealth.
Just a big stick, come at me bro.
It is.
@@jj4791 It is a full multirole, with a payload capacity superior to any other Western fighter, but currently acquired mainly to perform air superiority, replacing the legacy F-15C. For strike, F-15E remains. When F-15E will be retired, the EX will also inherit their roles.
Tailslide starts at 3:43
Love them Eagles
Skillz 👍🏻
This is very impressive from the pilot . 👏
This is why the F-15 is STILL feared. 50+ year old design that keeps getting better. McDonnell Douglas hit a home run with the Eagle 🦅
I need a ride in this!
And still undefeated in air to air combat. 👏👏👏
not bad for a design that is 51 years old albiet with modern upgrades
It's not the same design. It's completely redesigned, just based off previous versions. It's like saying a 2020 Ford Mustang was designed in the 1960s, but with some upgrades.
One thing was very close to this: Joe Felock Boeing test pilot demo flight in Seoul, 2001, by a rented USAF F-15E Strike Eagle. That flight is on the RUclips. Without CFT and with the good old Flight Control System, that pilot managed a quite similar slow speed - high alpha show, except the Tailslide and this more agressive dynamic alpha pull. But there was square loop from the Hornet/Super Hornet and a lot of very slow turn.
Just RAW hosepower baby....CRAZY maneuvering. The only other jet I have seen do some of this is the 22 but it has the vectoring. Just INSAINE.
WOW, amazing demo, including that negative G´s ...
What a Maneuverability, It feels like F 35.
That power
That high alpha to double Immelmann blows anything Russia has ever done out of the water. Amazing. My baby is back on top.
New favorite AF aircraft
An F-15 with fly-by-wire?
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiice....!!!
Back in 1975 my buddy and I would argue about everything and one argument was his assertion that the F-14 was better than the F-15, and my opinion was to the contrary.
.... Air Forces throughout the world are still operating, and bragging about, their F-15s.... I win.
Wow
Awesome. You can see what the flight control computer is doing when the elevators are going up and down to maintain stable flight control. But how many G's is all this pulling?
Flight demonstration in a shoebox. Awesome!
Yes Sukoi fan boys! That's the F-15 doing all your tricks without thrust vectoring or canards.
Hardly! No cobra, no cobra stance, no hook, no pedal turn, no kulbit, no j-turn... and for what it's worth, most Su-27s don't have thrust vectoring or canards, and can do many of those manoeuvres too.
This F-15 flew back-to-back with an Su-35 at this airshow. It's impressive, and it can do some things that the Su-35 can't, but it certainly isn't capable of matching the Sukhoi's famous party tricks. Don't equate them in that regard!
I went from an F-22 demo done last month to this video and danm it's hard to see a difference in the maneuverability. Very impressive for a plane I wanted to go to the Air Force Academy and become a pilot just to fly an F-15 when I was a kid in the 80's (bad eyes, bad at math, reality) and the fact that it's better than ever and I'm gonna be 50 soon is pretty crazy. I wonder how many multi-generation families of fighter pilots there are out there who have been in the same planes as their fathers or even grandfathers??!!??
Nice
Holy maneuvering Eagle Batman! 😱
The sustained turn 2:33 to 2:53 is pretty good. 18 deg/s. It might be the fastest F-15 circle on youtube