First flight of a restored F-104:
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7 comments:
the old man would look at 104s and say 'just 'cause you can do a thing, doesn't mean you should do it'
The plane that almost killed Chuck Yeager.
Pretty lawn dart.
The German joke about the F-104 was, "How do you get your hands on a Starfighter? Buy a field – and wait.”
Robert Calvert made an album in 1974 called Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters, about the Germans buying F-104s and making fun of them for doing so. I always wondered whether he really meant the satire, and apparently he did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Lockheed_and_the_Starfighters
-Doug in Oakland
RF, that airplane was nowhere near the operational domain of the F-104...it was fitted with a rocket engine and an RCS, and meant to go clean out of the atmosphere for astronaut training.
Definition of an optimist: A Luftwaffe Starfighter pilot who quit smoking.
Man, those J-79s were smoky. No point in stealth with those. And the F4 used TWO of them!
LRod
ZJX, ORD, ZAU retired
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