The F-15 Eagle has a length of 63ft and 9in, a height of 18ft and 5.5in, and a wing of 608sq ft. During take-off the F-15 weighs 44,500lb. The Eagle's weight of the internal fuel is 13,455lb. The F-15 Eagle has two F100-P-220 augmented turbofans. The fastest the F-15 can go is Mach 2.50 and it can slow down to Mach 1.20. The operation ceiling is 65,000ft and the climb rate is 50,000ft per minute. The Eagle has a load out of one 20mm M61A cannon with 675 rounds, eight AAMs, AIM-120 Amraam, and AIM-9 Sidewinder. Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the USA are the only users of the F-15 Eagle.
The first flight of the F-15 was ignominious, in the hold of a C-5 Galaxy. It took to the skies under its own power in the hands of chief test pilot Irving Burrows on July 27, 1972. Before long the USAF declared the Eagle a winner. In 1975 a stripped version, the Streak Eagle, set hatful time-to-altitude records. Many of these records had been previously held by the MiG-25 Foxbat. Every seventh F-15 that was built was a two-seater. the F-15B (two-seater) was fully combat-capable.
