Although the time-to-climb record is a sporting affair today, in its execution it is remindful of Royal Air Force missions during World War II, when German formations crossed the English Channel ...

In 1975, the F-15A – flown here from Edwards Air Force Base in California – rose to more than 98,000 feet in three minutes and 27.8 seconds, setting a world time-to-climb record for aircraft ...

49 years later, the F-15 Streak Eagle record at Grand Forks Air Force Base is still a story of air dominance Nearly five decades later, ... to break vertical time-to-climb records. ...

But the F-15 could do even better than that, and was used to break multiple records, including eight time-to-climb records that were held by the Soviet MiG-25. Happy 50th Anniversary to the F-15!