{"id":84567,"date":"2024-07-11T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-lucky-f-15e-15000-flight-hours\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T09:12:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T23:12:14","slug":"1-air-to-air-kill-us-air-force-lucky-f-15e-clocks-15000-flight-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=84567","title":{"rendered":"1 Air-To-Air Kill: US Air Force &#8220;Lucky&#8221; F-15E Clocks +15,000 Flight Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    On May 17, 2024, a US Air Force <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-15\/\">F-15E<\/a> Strike Eagle with the tail number #89-0487 (dubbed &#8220;Lucky&#8221;) marked a remarkable milestone. It surpassed 15,000 flight hours while carrying out a combat sortie. Adding to the accomplishment, &#8220;Lucky&#8221; is the only F-15E in the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">US Air Force<\/a> credited with an air-to-air kill. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-the-f-15-eagle-has-never-been-shot-down\/\">No F-15 Eagle has ever been shot down in combat<\/a>.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now 35 years in service, the F-15E Eagle &#8220;Lucky&#8221; boasts the only US Air Force Eagle air-to-air kill and 15,000 flight hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2125,628,567,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-15","category-fighter-jets","category-guides","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84568,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84567\/revisions\/84568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}