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Edwards Ground Nasa program . Yes .

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Ground , we'd like permission to tow

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the oldest line ever seen in the world

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from the Nasa ramp to for the 50th

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anniversary of the F 15 eagle tail

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number 740141 necessary to

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approve advising roger copy will of

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Iceland .

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So actually the first flight for the F-

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15 happened here at Edwards 50 years

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ago today and then over the next couple

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of years it did the developmental

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testing At that point as it started to

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deploy , the first production Eagles

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were delivered to combat units starting

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in 1976 . Developmental testing on

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upgrades started almost immediately .

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In fact , a whole overhaul project was

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started in 1983 , tested In

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parts here at Edwards . It's the great

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thing about a legacy like the Eagles 50

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years . It has been in many ways a

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visible symbol of the Air Force Edwards

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has always had a home for the Eagle and

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we're just happy to get to celebrate

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this milestone here . We appreciate

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Nasa bringing out such a storied

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aircraft that we get to celebrate with .

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So the airplane behind me is uh , NASA

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836 . It is the oldest F15

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on the , on the planet today came to

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NASA in 1993 . So we've had it had it

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for almost 30 years . Um , and it had ,

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it had a pretty good history before us .

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It started its life in 1974 . So it's

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48 years old as it sits there right now .

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Yeah ,

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so this airplane has been used

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historically for high speed research ,

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anything supersonic . So this will fly

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up to mach 2.5 and we we routinely take

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it to Mach two . We have several

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fixtures on the outside of the airplane .

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What we've been researching is air data

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systems and and air measurement systems

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of that kind . So a new Peto tube , a

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new sensor , a new static ports , a new ,

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any kind of sensor that needs to go

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high supersonic . We mounted on a pylon

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on the center line of the airplane and

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take it out to various flight

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conditions .

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What you get is an airplane that's

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£1000 lighter than every other F 15

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on the planet and with the most current

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engines in it . So this is a hot rod ,

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it's probably the fastest F 15 out

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there . We can take to F fifteens And

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you know , one that's 10 years newer or

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even 20 years newer and this will leave

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it in the dust every single time . You

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just cannot keep up with it with

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anything we have . It's that fast . So

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it's a great research platform for Nasa .

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It doesn't have the avionics , but if

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you need something to go fast , it'll

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go fast