F 15 Streak Eagle Record Flights (15 min)
A presentation and discussion about the Streak Eagle with some of the people who was involved back then (see also this page).
40th Anniversary: F-15 'Streak Eagle' Flights (37 min. You might want to skip to 11:17 min. There are some issues with the filming).
Then there is also this interesting post by "vessbot" in the Something Awful forums, that explains the seemingly odd and arbitrary maneuvers very well, and another post discussing the modifications to the aircraft.
Some technical references related to flight testing for and developing of optimum climb profiles (sometimes mentioned as "Rutowski climb profiles") for those so inclined:
- USNTPS FTM-108, Ch 7, US Naval Test Pilot School - Flight Test Manual 108 - Fixed Wing Aircraft Performance, Chapter 7 - Climb Performance (pdf, 0.2 MB).
- NASA TN D-6398, Robert T. Marshall, NASA Technical Note D-6398 - Flight Determined Acceleration and Climb Performance of an F-104G Airplane for Use in an Optimum-Flight-Path Computer Program (pdf, 1.3 MB), NASA Flight Research Center, June 1970
- NASA TM 86042, Edward A. Haering, Jr, and Frank W. Burcham, Jr, NASA Technical Memorandum 86042 - Minimum Time and Fuel Flight Profiles for an F-15 Airplane with a Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control System (pdf, 0.9 MB), June 1984.
- AFIT/GAE/ENY/10-M20, Matthew Schneider, Dive Angle Sensitivity Analysis for Flight Test Safety and Efficiency (pdf, 8.6 MB), Air Force Institute of Technology, March 2010.
Chapter II, History and Background, have a very good overview of the early research efforts and theory related to optimization of climb profiles for supersonic aircraft, primarily by Edward S. Rutowski and Arthur E. Bryson Jr. - Edward S. Rutowski, Energy Approach to the General Aircraft Performance Problem, Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences, Vol. 21, No. 3 (1954), pp. 187-195 (Unfortunately behind a "paywall").