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F-15 ACTIVE Specifications
Primary Function: experimental - Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles
Contractor: McDonnell Douglas
Crew: Two
Unit Cost: N/A
Powerplant
  Two higher-thrust version Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229 engines (with newly developed axisymmetric thrust-vectoring engine exhaust nozzles) rated at 29,000 lbs. of thrust each at full power
Dimensions
Length: 63.7 ft, excluding flight test nose boom
Wingspan: 42.8 ft
Canard span: 25.6 ft
Height: 18.5 ft - F-15
Weights
Empty: 35,000 lb
TOW: 47,000 lb
Performance
Speed: Mach 2.0 (speeds limited to Mach 1.2)
Ceiling: 60,000 feet
Range: N/A
Armament
  N/A


F-15 ACTIVE Achievements
  • The F-15 ACTIVE demonstrated the first supersonic yaw-vectoring flight
  • The F-15 ACTIVE demonstrated the first pitch and yaw thrust vectoring at speeds up to Mach 2
  • The F-15 ACTIVE was the first two-seat F-15 built by McDonnell Douglas


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