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Early F-15s - Part 1
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 1:06 pm
by dennis273
A few of the Eagles I managed to get. Looks like I had slightly more luck with 32TFS Eagles than I did with their Phantoms!
F-15A 77-0092 32TFS Mildenhall 25th May 1979
F-15B 77-0157 32TFS Mildenhall 25th May 1979
F-15B_77-0158 32TFS Greenham Common 22nd June 1979
F-15A 77-0081 32TFS Greenham Common 23rd June 1979
F-15C 78-0547 36TFW Coltishall 19th August 1980
Re: Early F-15s - Part 1
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 1:36 pm
by CLPSLFBT
Lovely pictures Dennis of a long time resident of Europe
, great to see the 32TFS machines as well.
Cheers Glenn
Re: Early F-15s - Part 1
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 4:44 pm
by Mustang531
Very nice selection, thanks for sharing these. I must admit that the first time I saw any, I was very impressed and they looked so futuristic.
Re: Early F-15s - Part 1
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 5:51 pm
by Tiger 1
Great set of photos... I think this is going to be a great thread... looking forward to Part 2... 3...4
... with visions of F15s from....SP...BT...IS...and may be some from LN seeing as they are now going home.
Thanks for posting... enjoyed these a lot... Good memories.
T1
Re: Early F-15s - Part 1
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 9:03 pm
by dennis273
Tiger 1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 5:51 pm
Great set of photos... I think this is going to be a great thread... looking forward to Part 2... 3...4
... with visions of F15s from....SP...BT...IS...and may be some from LN seeing as they are now going home.
Thanks for posting... enjoyed these a lot... Good memories.
T1
Sorry to disappoint you - I'm afraid I dropped out of taking aircraft pictures around 1980/81ish so not many Eagles at all.
Dennis
Re: Early F-15s - Part 1
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 11:10 pm
by Supra
Great set of images here. Does anybody know of a reasonable explanation why the 'CR' Soesterberg Eagles had all black wheels whilst 'BT' Bitburg Eagles had white nose-wheels & grey main-gear as shown in the last shot above?
Edit:- Then I notice the second jet into Mildenhall in shot 2 above has grey main gear. Maybe it's just a tyre-bay lottery?
Re: Early F-15s - Part 1
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 4:09 am
by paddyboy
Hi Dennis
Great to see these early 15’s
Thanks for posting
Paddyboy
Re: Early F-15s - Part 1
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 4:14 pm
by Unknown74
Strangely although I have seen Eagles from BT - Bitburg, IS - Keflavic and LN - Lakenheath I never saw a CR coded Eagle unfortunately but I have also seen 2 EG - Elgln AFB Eagles.
Re: Early F-15s - Part 1
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 6:16 am
by Supra
I think you may have seen the 'EG' jets at IAT Boscombe Down? They were from Eglin.... not Moray!
Re: Early F-15s - Part 1
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 3:24 pm
by F3
Never seen one like that last one (side on with air brake fully deployed) before so did nt realise it's size. Barn door comes to mind!
... with visions of F15s from....SP...BT...IS...and may be some from LN seeing as they are now going home.