Piloting the "Celestial Eagle" F-15A (76-0084), Maj. Wilbert D. "Doug" Pearson would take-off from Edwards Air Force Base on Sept. 13, 1985, with an ASM-135 attached to his aircraft centerline.

The F-15 Eagle Is Old, ... when Israeli Air Force ace Moshe Melnik shot down a Syrian Air Force MiG-21 in his F-15A. ... Saudi and American F-15s were responsible for this impressive streak.

The F-15EX is dimensionally identical to previous F-15s but can carry considerably more firepower. The F-15A, F-15C, and F-15E maxed out at eight air-to-air missiles, typically a combination of ...

When the Eagle was brand new, not that many people thought that day would ever come. Built to replace Mcdonnel-Douglas's previous front-line interceptor, the F-4 Phantom II, the F-15A Eagle was a ...

In 1985, a F-15A Eagle fitted with a classified missile shot down an aging weather satellite. The test of the Anti-Satellite (ASAT) was considered a huge success. Task & Purpose has published a ...

Airmen at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada were going to repaint an F-15A Eagle to celebrate the Air Force’s 70th birthday this year, but they instead decided to honor those affected by last ...

The F-15 fighter jet, nicknamed the Eagle, had its first test flight in 1972, and it may ... an F-15A broke the time-to-climb world record by ascending to an altitude of 98,425 feet in only three ...

Piloting the “Celestial Eagle” F-15A (76-0084), Maj. Wilbert D. “Doug” Pearson would take-off from Edwards Air Force Base on Sept. 13, 1985, with an ASM-135 attached to his aircraft ...