Does the F-15 Eagle have fly-by-wire flight controls system?

Question

Does the F-15 Eagle have fly-by-wire flight controls system?

Answer 1

Yes it does

Answer 2

F-15 has a mechanical flight control system in conjunction with a fly-by-wire system. It is fully flyable without the FBW system.It has positive to neutral tendencies and a flight computer is not absolutely necessary for the pilot to adequately control it. (negative tendency aircraft are difficult to control or even uncontrollable without computer assistance)

"The pilot flies the machine through an analog electronic "fly by wire (FBW)" system named the "Control Augmentation System (CAS)", though the aircraft can still be flown if the CAS is disabled. "

-http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avf15_1.htm...

F15A was designed without FBW but they added the "control augmentation system" later, on a few As, and later.

Answer 3

Originally, the F-15A was not FBW.  It had control technology about the same as the F-111.

The F-16 was the first bird in the US arsenal with FBW technology.

Later marks of the F-15 incorporated FBW.

Answer 4

Most modern aircraft have fly-by-wire these days... especially military aircraft. This is because they fly so fast and are required to perfom such violent manouvers, a pilot would simply not have the physical strength to deflect the wing and tail surfaces enough using a "wire and pulley" system... and most military aircraft these days need very fine control inputs... often finer than the pilot can manage, so the computer controls the wing and tail surfaces and the pilot simply tells the computer what he wants to do using the stick and rudder.

One of the best examples of this is the new Eurofighter Typhoon... the slogan they use for this aircraft is "The computer flies the plane, the pilot flys the mission".

It's the same with the F-15.

Answer 5

The F-15, which was designed in the 70s, has a blend of a mechanical flight control system along with a fly-by-wire electronic stability augmentation system.  The airplane can be flown just fine without the computers.  Most front line fighters designed after the F-15 are full fly-by-wire.