Back McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD Spanish مکدانل داگلاس اف-۱۵ استیاوال/امتیدی Persian McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD French McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD ID McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD Italian F-15 S/MTD (航空機) Japanese F-15S/MTD Korean F-15S/MTD Malay McDonnell Douglas F-15 ACTIVE Portuguese F-15 АКТИВ Serbian
| F-15 STOL/MTD / NASA NF-15B Research Aircraft | |
|---|---|
.jpg) F-15 ACTIVE in 1997 | |
| General information | |
| Type | Technology Demonstrator and Research Aircraft |
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | McDonnell Douglas |
| Status | Retired from both NASA and military service |
| Primary users | United States Air Force |
| Number built | 1 |
| Registration | NASA 837 |
| Serial | USAF S/N 71-0290 |
| History | |
| First flight | 7 September 1988 (STOL/MTD)[1] |
| Retired | 15 August 1991 (STOL/MTD) 30 January 2009 |
| Developed from | McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle |
The McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD (Short Takeoff and Landing/Maneuver Technology Demonstrator) is a modified F-15 Eagle. Developed as a technology demonstrator, the F-15 STOL/MTD carried out research for studying the effects of thrust vectoring and enhanced maneuverability. The aircraft used for the project was pre-production TF-15A (F-15B) No. 1 (USAF S/N 71-0290), the first two-seat F-15 Eagle built by McDonnell Douglas (out of 2 prototypes[2]), the sixth F-15 off the assembly line, and was the oldest F-15 flying up to its retirement. It was also used as the avionics testbed for the F-15E Strike Eagle program.[3] The plane was on loan to NASA from the United States Air Force.
This same aircraft would later be used in the F-15 ACTIVE ("Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles") from 1993 to 1999, and later in the Intelligent Flight Control System programs from 1999 to 2008.
While with NASA, the aircraft's tail number was 837.[4] The aircraft is now on display at Edwards AFB.[5]
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- ^ "Fact Sheets: MCDONNELL DOUGLAS F-15A". National Museum of the US Air Force. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- ^ Aircraft Description Archived 25 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine NASA 19 April 2010
- ^ "NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: NF-15B Research Aircraft". NASA. 28 February 2014. Archived from the original on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ "NF-15B". The Historical Marker Database. 11 August 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2020.