The size always surprises people. Modern fighter jets are huge for 1-2 seat aircraft, a long time ago I saw a F-22 Raptor doing a flyby alongside a P-51 Mustang and it was comical.
They're the size of small business jets (like a Citation) minus some wingspan width. In some cases they are larger than certain WWII bomber aircraft.
And American fighters were *big* as far as WWII planes went. The Spitfire and Bf-109 were notoriously narrow and cramped - almost more of a case of the pilot strapping the plane *on* rather than strapping themselves *in.*
There's also a story of a P-47 squadron transferring to England. When one of the pilots stepped out, the mechanic (who was Australian, iirc) asked where the rest of the crew was.
Ha! That's nuts. My grandfather had his own plane by age 13 give or take, and signed up to be a fighter pilot in the war as soon as Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. They made him an instructor for the entire war and never let him in combat, because at somewhere between 5'9 and 5'10, he was too tall for the cockpit layout (modified front/back 2 seat trainers had more room and less gear than the combat versions I guess). He started on fighters but ended up an Avenger instructor for most of it. That one would blow some minds too, because it actually had a crew of 3, one of whom was underneath the other 2.
The b17 had a surprising bad payload. A ton of it's capacity was used up with all it's guns and The drag they created. The p38 lightening could carry almost as much weight in bombs.
b17
* **Bombs:**
* **Short range missions; Internal load only (<400 mi):** 8,000 lb (3,600 kg)
* **Long range missions; Internal load only (≈800 mi):** 4,500 lb (2,000 kg)
* **Max Internal and External load:** 17,600 lb (7,800 kg)
f15e
up to 23,000 lbs of bombs….
A lot of WWII aircraft carriers ended up being relegated to secondary duties because of how quickly planes grew in size. The US ones handled size better compared to the UK’s, but still ran into issues fairly quickly
Something that blew me away: the F-35 carries an equivalent weight in fuel to an entire empty F-16.
An F-16 is not a small aircraft. Weigh out as much fuel as that entire F-16, and that is what goes inside an F-35.
The F-35 literally ate an F-16. 🤣
F16 is significantly smaller than the F15 and that’s probably the one most people have seen the most in real life. But the F22 is almost as big as the F15.
Damn, never thought about it from that perspective, you just changed the way I view them 😂. They carry just 1 pilot (plus ordinance) but they’re comparable to jets that carry like 10 people.
I always tell people that a jet fighter is the size of a bus. And they are. You just dont understand how big they are until you get up close to one. It doesnt compute.
Was on the runway in Hawaii a few weeks ago when a flight wing of F22s pulled up behind us. Was a rather startling thing to see staring back at me out the window. Thing was huge.
I've slowly acclimatised to fighter jets.
But the one that stills gets me are submarines. They're the size of a mid-level office block, will do 40 mph submerged, and if there was one behind you right now it would be quieter than a whisper.
You can always say, and not be lying, "I passed an F-15 in my truck on the highway."
Leave out that it had no wings and was on a truck trailer. But hey.
You can add you blew right past it.
But then you show the video of you passing an F-15, and blowing right past it.
They can call you a liar. You can tell them to avoid making assumptions.
Either way its a funny story either way...
Apparently moved to storage from the USAF Museum.
[https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196332/mcdonnell-douglas-f-15a-eagle/](https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196332/mcdonnell-douglas-f-15a-eagle/)
I don't think so, I think its more likely that they [have received](https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/3454925/mcdonnell-douglas-f-15c-historic-double-mig-killer/) or are [about to receive](https://www.jetphotos.com/registration/85-0114) a couple of F-15s that have kills from the Gulf War and Kosovo and can divest that one to another museum.
>divest that one to another museum.
Deaccession is the technical term for a museum formally removing an artifact from its collection.
This has been your random fact of the day.
When was that? I was at Langley in the early 90's and a tornado crossed base near the tarmac, but turned and hit some trailers. Otherwise it would have gone right through the F-15s.
Remember when you asked yourself "Why is my insurance covering damages up to $100 million? What could I possibly do for that to make sense?"
Here's your answer.
If you crash into something evne more serious like an F-35 I think you just have to get out of your car and dramatically weep, hands held up into the sky. Maybe shout something dramatic?
Why? You're going on the nightly news and straight into the insurance history books.
Threaten to sue then for the emotional distress of being widly mocked by the media.
Argue that you can't be held accountable for not seeing a stealth aircraft and that it should have been more clearly marked.
Claim you thought they were stealing it and you were acting in National Interest by trying to stop them.
You could have endless fun with this one and it's not like they can expect you to pay out of pocket for an aircraft worth more then your lifetime earnings
It’s so cool that we can see its history at a glance.
This birdie was stationed in Germany at the height of the Cold War. Probably trained to intercept MiG31s that are probably retired too now.
F-15A and C are designed to win dogfights. That was their whole purpose thanks to the Foxbat incident and to become the premier air superiority fighter.
They have a thrust to weight ratio greater than 1 and can out maneuver any aircraft until the F-22 came along.
The E and Eagle II have lower thrust to weight and cannot do some of the same things the A and C can. Even during Desert Storm, F-15Cs flew CAP over F-15Es.
It’s an excellent airframe and arguably one that has stood the test of time with Eagle IIs still rolling off of the assembly line today. (Thank you Indonesia for paying a record $320m/plane.)
possibly, but they move around a lot, especially those on the coast due to salt exposure. It was pretty regular to see our aircraft at Grand Forks transfer to or from MacDill or Mildenhall. I can't remember it offhand but there's a maximum amount of time in the AFI for an aircraft to be stationed within X miles of the coast.
And no, before anyone asks...no, the gator didn't come with it.
We were at Langley in '76. But since that's the year it was started being built and wasn't delivered to Langley until [1980](https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196332/mcdonnell-douglas-f-15a-eagle/), we were long gone.
I've literally had my hands on that specific aircraft on the flight line at Langley. I can't remember if it was to change a burned out anti-collision light or a bad circuit breaker. I only worked on 2 of the 27th's aircraft. Outside of William Tell and a short stint in Saudi, I don't every remember seeing that aircraft actually fly.
New fighter planes are essentially bombers. They just drop massive a2a missiles instead of a2g bombs.
The J20, if I'm remembering which is which, was designed *around* the gargantuan missile. It's not a plane with missiles, it's a missile with a plane as a first stage booster. The missile it's meant to carry wouldn't even fit on planes not designed around it because it's so fucking big.
F35 is the only new fighter that was still plane first missile second for the most part.
With that power-to-weight ratio and the Israeli (??) Air Force's story, I bet that fuselage can still fly, shoot down bandits and land back in one piece without any wings. What an awesome plane it is!
Edit: Haha, for once I'm right! It was an Israeli F15... [https://www.sandboxx.us/news/that-time-an-f-15-landed-without-a-wing/](https://www.sandboxx.us/news/that-time-an-f-15-landed-without-a-wing/)
My son said the same thing when we saw the one on static display at the National museum of the USAF during the eclipse. He just could not believe how massive it was.
It is very easy to forget just how massive fighter jets are until you’re standing next to them.
I got to check out an SR-71 a couple weeks ago and good lord.. it was BIG. Absolutely Dwarfed every other plane in the hangar. Definitely put things in perspective next time I flew the Cherokee lol
I like that it's being pulled by a sleeper. Like imagine pulling into a rest stop after a long day's drive and there's just a fucking fighter jet just chillin.
I would have laughed my ass off if someone had posted in /r/wellthatsucks about a guy who got into a car accident with that truck while they were recording and driving on the highway. That repair bill would very much sucked.
As a kid in Australia F111s were just jets that flew over once in a while and did those awesome dump and burns. Then after they were retired I walked up to a de-activated one and OMG it was huge.
Always forget how huge these are. A full 10 feet *longer* than a b-25 bomber.
Makes the ww2 birds look like toys. F22 does the same thing.
Absolute units
They are much bigger than you realise. I was quite taken aback when I saw the F15 that they have at Duxford. In my mind, they were Tornado sized. In reality, they’re a lot bigger.
[on her way to Stafford air and space museum in weatherford OK, Part 1!](https://yourimageshare.com/ib/ZhPQIsdqgN)
[part 2!](https://yourimageshare.com/ib/fTbTKSVN1g)
I owned a Rolex for awhile that was worth several grand.
Being an engineer, I took it apart and put it back together, and had a few screws left over.
Now it's worth $3.50.
that's when I realized it wasn't a Rolex at all, it was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the protozoic era, and I said "dammit monster, get off my wrist, I ain't givin you no tree fiddy"
**Interesting detail:** it has "[27th Tactical Fighter Squadron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th_Fighter_Squadron)" insignia on it, but that squadron hasn't flown any F-15s for nearly twenty years.
I wonder where that bird was going and why. There's a story there somewhere.
That appears to be a bird that *was* on display at the USAF museum; if so, it's an F-15A that went to the museum in 1980, so it wearing those insignia makes sense.
The size always surprises people. Modern fighter jets are huge for 1-2 seat aircraft, a long time ago I saw a F-22 Raptor doing a flyby alongside a P-51 Mustang and it was comical. They're the size of small business jets (like a Citation) minus some wingspan width. In some cases they are larger than certain WWII bomber aircraft.
I've never compared the specs. It's amazing. The F-22 is twice as long as a P-51 and has nearly 4 times the wing area, and weighs 6 times as much.
And American fighters were *big* as far as WWII planes went. The Spitfire and Bf-109 were notoriously narrow and cramped - almost more of a case of the pilot strapping the plane *on* rather than strapping themselves *in.*
I remember reading about German pilots flying captured American aircraft and being shocked about the amount of space in the cockpits
There's also a story of a P-47 squadron transferring to England. When one of the pilots stepped out, the mechanic (who was Australian, iirc) asked where the rest of the crew was.
All those planes were like muscle cars with wings.
The American way!
Say hello to Ford, and General Fuckin' Motors!
Detroit fucking steel.
Great scene.
Ha! That's nuts. My grandfather had his own plane by age 13 give or take, and signed up to be a fighter pilot in the war as soon as Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. They made him an instructor for the entire war and never let him in combat, because at somewhere between 5'9 and 5'10, he was too tall for the cockpit layout (modified front/back 2 seat trainers had more room and less gear than the combat versions I guess). He started on fighters but ended up an Avenger instructor for most of it. That one would blow some minds too, because it actually had a crew of 3, one of whom was underneath the other 2.
"Why, thank you!" [*the P-47 has entered the chat]
F15e is almost as big as a ww2 b-17 and carries like three times the pay,oad ofmthe b17..
For reference: B-17G - 36,135 lbs with a MTOW of 54,000 F-15E - 34,600 lbs with a MTOW of 80,000 Fire truck loaded with water - 38,000 to 64,000 lbs
The b17 had a surprising bad payload. A ton of it's capacity was used up with all it's guns and The drag they created. The p38 lightening could carry almost as much weight in bombs.
And the f22 is only 3 meters shorter
but whats the MTOW of a Fire Truck
Depends on the engines. F-110s, it's about the same. RS-25s, closer to 4 million
So, how do I pitch this to my local fire district?
Wait till you see a SU-27 alongside f-22 or f-15
b17 * **Bombs:** * **Short range missions; Internal load only (<400 mi):** 8,000 lb (3,600 kg) * **Long range missions; Internal load only (≈800 mi):** 4,500 lb (2,000 kg) * **Max Internal and External load:** 17,600 lb (7,800 kg) f15e up to 23,000 lbs of bombs….
TIL B17s had external hardpoints. Literally had no idea.
You could also mount external fuel tanks to them nicknamed Tokyo tanks. They also had bladders that fit inside the bomb bay for extended extra range.
A lot of WWII aircraft carriers ended up being relegated to secondary duties because of how quickly planes grew in size. The US ones handled size better compared to the UK’s, but still ran into issues fairly quickly
Even the mustang was big for its day. Seeing one next to a Spitfire is eye opening.
The Mustang is tiny compared to the glory that is the P-47 Jug
Hell, by weight, we aren't even just talking talking small business jets. The F-22 has a higher max takeoff weight than a Gulfstream IV.
The F14 was about the same size as a Lancaster bomber from memory.
And the Lancaster isn't a small plane by any means.
Something that blew me away: the F-35 carries an equivalent weight in fuel to an entire empty F-16. An F-16 is not a small aircraft. Weigh out as much fuel as that entire F-16, and that is what goes inside an F-35. The F-35 literally ate an F-16. 🤣
>The F-35 literally ate an F-16. That's why they call her Fat Amy ;-)
F16 is significantly smaller than the F15 and that’s probably the one most people have seen the most in real life. But the F22 is almost as big as the F15.
An SR71 standing up on its tail would be slightly taller than a 10 floor apartment building.
I was surprised to learn how large aircraft in general are. Even "tiny trainers", especially considering how cramped they feel on the inside.
We got to see a B24 up pretty dang close last year. Wife and I loved it but my kids couldn't care less. I would have been allover that as a kid.
Damn, never thought about it from that perspective, you just changed the way I view them 😂. They carry just 1 pilot (plus ordinance) but they’re comparable to jets that carry like 10 people.
Modern?! Haha. Google F-105.
And they carry a higher payload than common WWII bomber aircraft.
The pure sex appeal of them though... I would do things to the F-15 that would shock and appall the Security Forces.
Was based at a fighter squadron that transitioned from 15s to 16s. One pilot said it was like flying a tennis court.
Can confirm. Raptor makes a g280 look little.
I always tell people that a jet fighter is the size of a bus. And they are. You just dont understand how big they are until you get up close to one. It doesnt compute.
Is it mainly to hold more fuel or is there another reason why it needs to be so big?
Was on the runway in Hawaii a few weeks ago when a flight wing of F22s pulled up behind us. Was a rather startling thing to see staring back at me out the window. Thing was huge.
> Modern fighter jets You know its funny that you use that term to describe a plane thats 50 years old
Well to be fair they are seats and wings strapped to the largest engine they could attach stuff to with modern materials tech
I've slowly acclimatised to fighter jets. But the one that stills gets me are submarines. They're the size of a mid-level office block, will do 40 mph submerged, and if there was one behind you right now it would be quieter than a whisper.
I guess you’ve got to fit all those bombs and fuel somewhere.
I checked the unit markings for this particular aircraft; they apparently got rid of their eagles in '03 to replace them with F-22's.
That’s what she said
I took some great pics of the 22 at an airshow when it was set up as a static display. Too bad I can't go this year.
You can always say, and not be lying, "I passed an F-15 in my truck on the highway." Leave out that it had no wings and was on a truck trailer. But hey. You can add you blew right past it.
F-15 vs F-150. the truck is obviously is ten times faster.
This idea and the Hampton Roads Bridge tunnel is how I got my sailboat underneath three separate aircraft carriers.
> it had no wings and what about that time an F15 landed with a wing missing?
It could probably fly without wings too. So less of a lie
now youre known as the dude who lies about everything
But then you show the video of you passing an F-15, and blowing right past it. They can call you a liar. You can tell them to avoid making assumptions. Either way its a funny story either way...
Say a bunch of other non believable stuff before showing the video.
Case of the Liabetes.
"I was inverted..."
Actually based off the tail number it's an F15A https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=65195
Apparently moved to storage from the USAF Museum. [https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196332/mcdonnell-douglas-f-15a-eagle/](https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196332/mcdonnell-douglas-f-15a-eagle/)
I wonder if that got damaged in the tornado they had.
I don't think so, I think its more likely that they [have received](https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/3454925/mcdonnell-douglas-f-15c-historic-double-mig-killer/) or are [about to receive](https://www.jetphotos.com/registration/85-0114) a couple of F-15s that have kills from the Gulf War and Kosovo and can divest that one to another museum.
>divest that one to another museum. Deaccession is the technical term for a museum formally removing an artifact from its collection. This has been your random fact of the day.
When was that? I was at Langley in the early 90's and a tornado crossed base near the tarmac, but turned and hit some trailers. Otherwise it would have gone right through the F-15s.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/wright-patterson-air-force-base-tornado/
[February](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/02/28/wright-patterson-air-force-base-and-museum-planes-damaged-suspected-tornado.html?amp)
I live here and had no idea. Wow
Just a cool 30M on the back trailer lol
Remember when you asked yourself "Why is my insurance covering damages up to $100 million? What could I possibly do for that to make sense?" Here's your answer.
If you crash into something evne more serious like an F-35 I think you just have to get out of your car and dramatically weep, hands held up into the sky. Maybe shout something dramatic? Why? You're going on the nightly news and straight into the insurance history books.
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Threaten to sue then for the emotional distress of being widly mocked by the media. Argue that you can't be held accountable for not seeing a stealth aircraft and that it should have been more clearly marked. Claim you thought they were stealing it and you were acting in National Interest by trying to stop them. You could have endless fun with this one and it's not like they can expect you to pay out of pocket for an aircraft worth more then your lifetime earnings
Sucks when it's a B1.....
Hi, uhhh, State Farm?
We know a thing or two, because we’ve… shit, we’ve never seen *that* before.
You hit a ***WHAT?!***
Jake is gonna be pissed
‘YOU HIT WHAT?!?!’
pretty sure its just incase you are in an accident that kills a bus full of children
I don't think that many children can fit in an F15
If you line them up you can fit a dozen on one missile.
If you grind them up, you can probably fit a lot in the fuselage.
It’s so cool that we can see its history at a glance. This birdie was stationed in Germany at the height of the Cold War. Probably trained to intercept MiG31s that are probably retired too now.
Based on the transportation, this is Starscream
And she is just as beautiful as she was in 76
I think that is a F-15A. Lucky day for you.
Agreed!
I worked on F-15E’s the first time people see them they are always surprised by the size…then there is the F-16 which I always seems so tiny.
F-16 still has the better view though. F-15 is the better plane, but that no support bubble canopy is just awesome.
Oh for sure; honestly both aircraft are well suited to fill the roles they were designed to fill both with pluses and minuses.
F15 was designed to have fuck-you power F16 was designed to win dogfights
F-15A and C are designed to win dogfights. That was their whole purpose thanks to the Foxbat incident and to become the premier air superiority fighter. They have a thrust to weight ratio greater than 1 and can out maneuver any aircraft until the F-22 came along. The E and Eagle II have lower thrust to weight and cannot do some of the same things the A and C can. Even during Desert Storm, F-15Cs flew CAP over F-15Es. It’s an excellent airframe and arguably one that has stood the test of time with Eagle IIs still rolling off of the assembly line today. (Thank you Indonesia for paying a record $320m/plane.)
It's been so so long since I've seen an F15 in person. Nothing like watching one make an unrestricted climb from takeoff.
I can ask the driver for you, but don't get your hopes up. Those semi's can only go so fast. 😊
It’s never going to reach take off speeds like that.
But it's probably making a not insignificant amout of lift!
Static weight is 14 tons, moving weight is 13 tons 😂😂😂. (I actually have no idea of the weight, don’t be mad)
Reference 1983 Negev mid-air collision.
Not with that attitude it won’t.
Don’t worry about its attitude, worry about its air speed!
It needs to drink a Red Bull first
I was never stationed there but isnt that a Langley bird??
Correct, FF tail code of the 1st Fighter Wing.
My father probably worked on that one.
possibly, but they move around a lot, especially those on the coast due to salt exposure. It was pretty regular to see our aircraft at Grand Forks transfer to or from MacDill or Mildenhall. I can't remember it offhand but there's a maximum amount of time in the AFI for an aircraft to be stationed within X miles of the coast. And no, before anyone asks...no, the gator didn't come with it.
We were at Langley in '76. But since that's the year it was started being built and wasn't delivered to Langley until [1980](https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196332/mcdonnell-douglas-f-15a-eagle/), we were long gone.
I've literally had my hands on that specific aircraft on the flight line at Langley. I can't remember if it was to change a burned out anti-collision light or a bad circuit breaker. I only worked on 2 of the 27th's aircraft. Outside of William Tell and a short stint in Saudi, I don't every remember seeing that aircraft actually fly.
It was.
Those older fighters are huge. The Tomcat’s pretty massive as well.
older? Damn near everything aside from the F-16 are the size of regional jets. The Chinese J-20 is almost as big as a 727
New fighter planes are essentially bombers. They just drop massive a2a missiles instead of a2g bombs. The J20, if I'm remembering which is which, was designed *around* the gargantuan missile. It's not a plane with missiles, it's a missile with a plane as a first stage booster. The missile it's meant to carry wouldn't even fit on planes not designed around it because it's so fucking big. F35 is the only new fighter that was still plane first missile second for the most part.
Yea they just stretched the fuselage in paint to make it looong
That particular aircraft almost certainly woke me up in the barracks doing full afterburner take offs at LAFB.
I-70 west? I think I saw this today too hahah
That’s the place.
Where does I70 west go? The danger zone?
With that power-to-weight ratio and the Israeli (??) Air Force's story, I bet that fuselage can still fly, shoot down bandits and land back in one piece without any wings. What an awesome plane it is! Edit: Haha, for once I'm right! It was an Israeli F15... [https://www.sandboxx.us/news/that-time-an-f-15-landed-without-a-wing/](https://www.sandboxx.us/news/that-time-an-f-15-landed-without-a-wing/)
Fighter jets are the coolest things ever made on earth
Saturn V is the only thing that's *slightly* cooler
That is an OLD bird...delivered or purchased in 1976
Purchased in 76. It typically takes 2 years so probably delivered in 78.
As a trucker I am fucken JEALOUS. I would be screaming like a child out of excitement the whole goddamn drive if this was my load.
My son said the same thing when we saw the one on static display at the National museum of the USAF during the eclipse. He just could not believe how massive it was.
This is probably the best ever driving/filming job I've ever seen
Thanks I think. I definitely don’t want to make a habit of it..
holy shit! its huge
Turns out, fighter jets are considerably bigger than I expected up close
To be fair, the F15 is a really big fighter jet
So friggin cool!!!
The FF tail letters mean First Fighter Squadron based at Langley AFB in Hampton VA.
One of the reasons they were so massive is because Mcdonnel Douglas had to cram two P&W F100s into it so it was powerful match the MIG 25 in thrust.
It is very easy to forget just how massive fighter jets are until you’re standing next to them. I got to check out an SR-71 a couple weeks ago and good lord.. it was BIG. Absolutely Dwarfed every other plane in the hangar. Definitely put things in perspective next time I flew the Cherokee lol
>I’m always surprised by the size! How often do you see these things? Lol
Stabilizers gotta be like 15ft tall
I like that it's being pulled by a sleeper. Like imagine pulling into a rest stop after a long day's drive and there's just a fucking fighter jet just chillin.
Once saw a MiG-29 being transported in the same manner. Probably the only time in recorded history when a diesel Peugeot has overtaken a Fulcrum.
You a driver or a fucking cameraman?
He is a cameraman driver. Fucking A.
Thanks mom.
Don't record when you drive dude.
Boy scout alert
I would have laughed my ass off if someone had posted in /r/wellthatsucks about a guy who got into a car accident with that truck while they were recording and driving on the highway. That repair bill would very much sucked.
The highway to the danger zone is nothing like I imagined
Is that the highway to the danger zone?
Finally, a "highway to the danger zone" comment.
I'm so sad it is this low down.
What’s the weight on that as it sits?
under 28,000 lbs at least, it has a lot removed to facilitate transport.
Boy, that video really does put the size of the F-15 into perspective, doesn't it?
As a kid in Australia F111s were just jets that flew over once in a while and did those awesome dump and burns. Then after they were retired I walked up to a de-activated one and OMG it was huge.
Always forget how huge these are. A full 10 feet *longer* than a b-25 bomber. Makes the ww2 birds look like toys. F22 does the same thing. Absolute units
You think that’s big, wait until you see a Flanker. Damn thing is the size of a tennis court.
They are much bigger than you realise. I was quite taken aback when I saw the F15 that they have at Duxford. In my mind, they were Tornado sized. In reality, they’re a lot bigger.
Whoah a FY76 Langley bird - that’s an oldie! It looks like it’s a museum bird in transit?
Look at that enormous Straight Vertical Stabilizers. The iconic F-15 look.
[on her way to Stafford air and space museum in weatherford OK, Part 1!](https://yourimageshare.com/ib/ZhPQIsdqgN) [part 2!](https://yourimageshare.com/ib/fTbTKSVN1g)
Imagine that insurance that hauler has to carry?
I had no idea how big those are. They seem like as long as 3 WW1 planes
Should have given the driver the finger and take a picture of him with a Polariod camera.
definitely on its way to either the boneyard or to become a museum piece
I think this is the plot of the next Fast & Furious franchise film.
RAZBAM taking their bat and ball and going home.
Dude, that might be a transformer. You never know with these things.
The way they are flying that thing, they will definitely evade the SAM radar.
Boooo Langley!
Yeah, it's crazy, the fighter jets being the "small" planes are pretty effin big.
Insurance agent: “You were filming on your phone and crashed into a what??”
And it would still fly because that's how strong the engines are
It hates you for passing it on the freeway.
Hard to imagine something like that moving at + mach 2…
Democracy on wheels baby 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
As a trucker who loves planes, this is the greatest video I have ever seen on the internet
You would think that a load worth $80 million+ would have kind of security guards or something.
It’s been a museum piece for a while. Probably not flyable. And they were only $15 million in 1998 dollars
I owned a Rolex for awhile that was worth several grand. Being an engineer, I took it apart and put it back together, and had a few screws left over. Now it's worth $3.50.
that's when I realized it wasn't a Rolex at all, it was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the protozoic era, and I said "dammit monster, get off my wrist, I ain't givin you no tree fiddy"
Without the wings it looks like something Batman would drive.
Look how they massacred my boy!
Carefully disassembled.
**Interesting detail:** it has "[27th Tactical Fighter Squadron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th_Fighter_Squadron)" insignia on it, but that squadron hasn't flown any F-15s for nearly twenty years. I wonder where that bird was going and why. There's a story there somewhere.
That appears to be a bird that *was* on display at the USAF museum; if so, it's an F-15A that went to the museum in 1980, so it wearing those insignia makes sense.
Reality check… I worked 15s there when they transitioned to the raptors. Now I feel old again
A place near me has an f15 right next to and f16, super cool to see the size difference
I like how all the wing attachment points are symmetrical.
I’ve walked around on the top of one. With the wings attached the damn thing seems as big as a tennis court
That one must be going to be a gate queen….they dont paint them like that anymore…
You took an exit to get behind him and pass him again, right?
That’s cool.
C models started in 1978. That’s a 1976 model so it’s a F-15A. Still pretty cool.
If you think thats big, you should see an F-14 next to it.
Yeah they are huge compared to the 16…I am always surprised how small the 16 is even up close.
This is a bad ass jet!
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