USAF's third F-15EX Eagle II takes flight ahead of delivery

Boeing completed the first flight of the third F-15EX Eagle II for the USAF on October 27, some ten weeks after the new fighter was rolled off the assembly line. That day, two sorties were flown from the firm’s facility at St Louis Lambert International Airport in St Louis, Missouri. The third F-15EX (20-0003) is the first to be built in the type’s final operational configuration and has been fitted with the AN/ALQ-250 Eagle Passive Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS) –