Is this one really real?

I must know it, even take a risk of this simple thread will be deleted by Mod!




Who can tell me is this only a mockup or a real aircraft?
Do you have a photo of flying F-15E loading like this, 3 drop thank+2 CFT+4missile+12mk82 bombs? HELP QUICKLY PLEASE

It is a model, on someones floor.

Originally posted by emile
Who can tell me is this only a mockup or a real aircraft?
Do you have a photo of flying F-15E loading like this, 3 drop thank+2 CFT+4missile+12mk82 bombs? HELP QUICKLY PLEASE

Well, I don't know if that particular picture is real, my initial thought was that it was but anyway... Here is a picture of an F-15E with a very similar load out (cannot tell if it has a centerline tank)...



And here is one with the same load out but with a GBU-10 Paveway II instead of a centerline tank.



[edit on 19-4-2007 by WestPoint23]

Originally posted by firepilot
It is a model, on someones floor.

Why? because gap of ground that compare with aircraft is bigger?

That picture is the first F-15I that was delivered to the Israeli Air Force. It's a custom built F-15E with their own systems added to it.

www.geocities.com...

[edit on 4/19/2007 by Zaphod58]

here's some additional info on the F-15I that I found on the web after Zaphod58 beat me to it.

F-15I Youtube Video


GlobalSecurity

Differences between F-15I vs USAF F-15

• electronic countermeasures gear
  
  
• exhaust nozzles
  
  
• counterbalance on the port vertical stabilizer vs. USAF AN/ALQ-128 EWWS
  
  
• 2 AN/ALQ-135B band 3
  (starboard - vertical mount)
  (port side - horizontal mount)
  - located at the tail end of the booms
  - chiseled ends vs. round AN/ALQ-135 antenna located on port tail boom of USAF F-15s
  
  
• extra chaff/flare dispensers
  - located at the bottom of the tail booms
  
  
• uses engine actuator covers (turkey feathers)
  

primary role Tandem seat attack plane

dimensions Wingspan: 13.5 m
Length: 19.43 m
Height: 5.63 m

maximum speed: Mach 2.5 at high altitude,
1,482 kph at low altitude


range: 4,450 km

weight empty: 14,379 kg
max. loaded: 36,750 kg

power plant: 2 Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229

missiles: Python 3, Python 4, Sidewinder, Sparrow, AMRAAM
guns: 20 mm 6 barrelled cannon

total carry load capacity: up to 11 tons



more links
Israeli-Weapons
Jewish Virtual Library

You beat me to it Zaph. Other people, look at the Israeli insignia on the wing and the cammo scheme.

Also, isn't it just amazing how much weapons these things can carry!?

Thanks for toreishi's contribution. My friend argued this picture you posted still is model, because the gap of ground is too large compare with that F-15I. So that's why I need that completed full loading F-15I fly! Or another pictures, or some one can prove that isn't a model.

not sure what this one is. but its a good action shot

If it was a model it would have to be a really intricate one(near-lifesize that too) because you can clearly see the HUD reflector on the inside of the a/c..


So real it is!!


However the exhaust nozzles DO look a little close to each other and the horizontal tail fins look minsicule too!

This is the closest angle I could find to match of a "standard" F-15. You can get a good look at how close the nozzles really are on this bird.

I found some other arguments on this same photo on other message boards. Someone said they had seen the same photo in a book, and that it was real, so maybe it is.

But what looks off to me is the depth of field, and also I do not see any pitot tubes on the side of it and it just looks too clean.