When I was transferred to the F-16 and stationed at MacDill, which was an F-16 training base, like Luke, I heard that F-15 crews in Europe often reduced launch times by having crew chiefs runs the starboard engine and fully warmed up every systems. The pilot would be all suited up, helmet on, and waiting under port wing. The reason is because the cockpit ladder is on the port side. When the launch order came, pilot and crew chief would quickly swap places, crew chief would help the pilot to fully hook up, the pilot would start the port engine, and away he go. Depending on the waiting period, sometime the jets would hit the 'hot pit' area to top off any fuel before they hit the runways.
Could not do this with the F-16 because of its single engine. We could use an external generator, called the 'Dash 60', to at least fully initialize the INS, but that would be the safety limit. The down side is that we do not have enough -60s for every jet.
