Second F-15EX Fighter Jet Deployed at Eglin Air Force Base for Testing 1 May 2021, 7:16 UTC ·
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This second airplane is part of a small fleet of eight expected to be delivered to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) this year, and part of a large, 200-units strong Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract assigned to Boeing by the military branch in July last year.
The F-15EX represents a major evolution of one of America’s most famous and long-lived fighter jets. The version has been in the works for a while, and when it soared to the sky in the hands of the Eglin pilots, it became the first new F-15 variant to do that in 15 years.
Now this didn’t take long at all: just one month after Boeing announced a new variant of the F-15, the F-15EX, successfully completed a 90-minute flight test, the plane was officially inducted into service at an Air Force base for testing.
First Official Footage of the F-15EX Fighter Jet in the Air Shows USAF Livery 5 Mar 2021, 15:41 UTC ·
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Back at the beginning of February, Boeing announced that its newest strike fighter, the F-15EX, successfully completed its first 90-minute test flight at the Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, Missouri. Since then, it seems, pilots have been at it taking the thing up, and we have the first footage of the airplane taking off and flying over the airport, courtesy of Boeing. 11 photos
The short video below shows parts of a flight that took place on February 23 and was just released this week by the company. According to Boeing, the F-15EX is the first new F-15 variant to be flown by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) pilots in over 20 years. And it wears the official Air Force livery, too.