A U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle lands on the runway June 7, 2017, at Kadena Air Base, Japan. (Senior Airman Lynette M. Rolen) CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Boeing’s F-15 jet is undergoing a renaissance in ...

Summary: The F-15 ACTIVE, a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Air Force in the 1980s, transformed the legendary F-15 Eagle into a cutting-edge testbed for advanced aviation technologies.

The F-15 Eagle is a dominant aircraft, unrivaled in air-to-air combat—still in active service, and credited with over 100 aerial kills without a single loss. The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is one of ...

Previously we looked at the F-15 ACTIVE, an experimental program which set out to produce a workable thrust vectoring variant of the F-15B. The success of the ACTIVE program helped pave the way for ...