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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