NASA F-15B # 837 by junge1

Photography • Aviation • posted on Jan 15, 2009

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This F-15B, tailnumber 837 has canards and vectored thrust and served as an Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS) research testbed aircraft for NASA Dryden. This picture was taken in April 1997 at Nellis Air Force Base, NV and later scanned. Thank you for viewing and commenting on my recent uploads and a special 'Thank you' to those that may have added some them to their favorites, Sig...

Comments (28)

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flora-crassella

2:20PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

schönes Foto von dem schönen Flugzeug!

thevolunteer

2:31PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

OOoohhh, If I could fly, I would love to fly this baby. Nice capture Sig. Aloha

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timtripp

3:04PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

gorgeous shot of a fabulous aircraft

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babuci

3:08PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

Love the long stretch angle. Great capture.

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lyron

3:23PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

Great image. Well done!!

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bmac62

3:25PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

This is cool. I don't think there are anymore B models flying these days and this is a two seater no less. Excellent photo. Like the NASA paint job. Well done. Bill

MrsLubner

3:49PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

You'd have to be pretty proud to be sitting in that cockpit, huh? Gorgeous plane and really cool shot.

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Miska7

4:31PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

Very nice shot!

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mermaid

5:31PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

this looks like one build for speed...smile... a fine shot, Sig

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flaviok

6:06PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

Magnifica, uma captura soberba, aplausos (5)

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Seaview123

6:12PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

Very sharp photo of a classic warbird. Nice picture.

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Minda

7:09PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

This is cool scene sig really great capture...

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Digitaleagle

8:23PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

What an awesome Plane and capture, Very nice!!!!

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Richardphotos

9:15PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

beautiful jet and color scheme

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YARDOBE

9:31PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

...an Eagle with vectored thrust? Interesting that NASA would retro-fit an F-15,and that it could,considering it's size and shape...a precursor,perhaps to the Raptor!

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junge1

10:14PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

@YARDOBE. I suspect you are right. They used it (and some F-16s) to explore thrust vectoring. I saw some footage of an F-16 with vectored thrust. Amazing what they can do.

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renecyberdoc

11:12PM | Thu, 15 January 2009

Besides the technical details(i dont even drive-lol)love the shot from this nice bird.

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debbielove

6:47AM | Fri, 16 January 2009

Amazing aircraft, those with vectored thrust! Stunning photo, great colours. Thanks for showing it to us. Rob.

lucindawind

8:00AM | Fri, 16 January 2009

what a fabulous aircraft ! lovely shot !

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emmecielle

12:24PM | Fri, 16 January 2009

Great image! :)

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Buffalo1

12:33PM | Fri, 16 January 2009

Colorful paint job on this modified Eagle. Cool pic.

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kgb224

11:30PM | Fri, 16 January 2009

Excellent capture my friend.

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virginiese

2:38AM | Sat, 17 January 2009

nice shape and I love thier colors !

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amanda_a42

12:56PM | Sat, 17 January 2009

Fantastic shot, BRAVO!!!

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pixelmeister

2:52PM | Sat, 17 January 2009

Cool shot!

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mizoli

3:11PM | Sat, 17 January 2009

Excellent shot!

bebert

8:30AM | Sun, 18 January 2009

very nice shot

dragoon21

3:52PM | Sun, 18 January 2009

This is an F-15SMTD "Stall Maneuver Technology Demonstrator" it was the testbed for the directional thrust Engine exhaust on the F-22 and beyond stall manuvers it was built off of a B model