Photos Starfighter Paradise

[DENO]

Hi to all ! I would like to start a topic dedicated on F-104 Starfighter combat jet and it's variants. Feel free to contribute to honor this iconic Cold War NATO jet fighter.

I am gonna start with my archives

TurAF TF-104G, RAF Panavia tornado, USAF A-7 Corsair II and IAF F-104S during Dragon Hammer `87" exercise, on 5 May 1987.

TurAF F-104G at the Murted Main Jet Base in Ankara displaying with air-to-ground munutions and pilot in 1972.

USAF XF-104 on Rogers Dry Lake in 1954

TurAF pilot with his F-104G after from farewell flight in 1994

TurAF f-104 squadron with the pilots names and signatures on the photo, late 1980s.

Firstly received F-104s in 1967.

TurAF F-104Gs positioned on the servide ground in Diyarbakır, 1991.

IAF F-104S

USAF F-104

 

[DENO]

TurAF F-104 with Luftwaffe F-104 in 1970s.

TurAF F-100 with Luwftwaffe TF-104

TurAF F-16s with IAF F-104S during their farewell tour to each NATO country who flew with iconic Starfighter jets in 2004

TurAF F-104G, F5A and F-4E in formation flight

TurAF F-104s and F-16C in formation flight during early 1990s.

TurAF F-104 in early 1970s

TurAF F-104 with GAR-8 (early generation AIM-9) missiles in early 1970s

TurAF F-104G with air-to-ground munution and pilots in display late 1980s

 

[Fish&Chips]

Excellent pics, Deno. However, the Tornado in your very first photo is also Italian, not RAF.

 

[ArlieCrew]

Hi to all ! I would like to start a topic dedicated on F-104 Starfighter combat jet and it's variants. Feel free to contribute to honor this iconic Cold War NATO jet fighter.

I am gonna start with my archives

TurAF TF-104G, RAF Panavia tornado, USAF A-7 Corsair II and IAF F-104S during Dragon Hammer `87" exercise, on 5 May 1987.

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TurAF F-104G during weapons display in 1980s.

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USAF XF-104 on Rogers Dry Lake in 1954

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TurAF pilot with his F-104G after from farewell flight in 1994

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TurAF f-104 squadron with the pilots names and signatures on the photo, late 1980s.

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Firstly received F-104s in 1967.

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TurAF F-104Gs positioned on the servide ground in Diyarbakır, 1991.

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IAF F-104S

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USAF F-104

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Ah, Kelly Johnson's little "bottle rocket", she's raging beauty, but I'm afraid we would be stretching it a bit if we called her a "Lady", more like Mata Hari??? amazingly beautiful, but treacherous! I always loved the tip tanks, some of you may recall Chuck Yeager's adventures with this Chick, and later our amazing friend, Daryl Greenameyer, loved that boys Grumman Bearcat, "Conquest 1", but sad when he dusted his own Starfighter, scratch built from parts, in a accident similar to "Uncle Chucks"???

 

[DENO]

F-104G starfighter of the Federal German Air Force, one of the 3 German Starfighters which used as test platform of the ZeLL (Zero Length Launch) project in USA between 1963-1966. Berlin-Gatow military aviation museum, Germany. My click.

TurAF F-104 Starfighter test pilot, Colonel Kemal Yücetürk, AKA: "Toto Kemal". He is still holding the NATO record on fighter aircraft ejection with 6 succesful ejects which all of them from the famous Starfighter jets.

NF-104A. In 1963 an aircraft with the exact setup piloted by Chuck Yeager during his attemt to break the high-altitude record. Unfortunately he lost control of the aircraft during the attemt and miraculously survived by ejecting himself with severe bruises, a bleeding eyebrow and two lost fingertips.

Luftwaffe Starfighters in 1965

TurAF F-104 Starfighters at Diyarbakır Main Jet Base (South Eastern Turkey) during scramble training to retaliate any attack may come from Iraq after the Saddam's threat to hit NATO bases in Turkey with SCUDs in 1987.

 

[DENO]

Luftwaffe F-104 ZeLL prototype in action in Salt Lake Arizona US, 1966.

German Marine F-104G firing Komoran anti-ship missile prototoype

Norwegian RF-104G in 1977.

RCAF CF-104s in formation

USAF F-104s modified with probes at the Da Nang Airbase in South Vietnam, 1966.

RDAF F-104G

 

[ArlieCrew]

Luftwaffe F-104 ZeLL prototype in action in Salt Lake Arizona US, 1966.

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German Marine F-104G firing Komoran anti-ship missile prototoype

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Norwegian RF-104G in 1977.

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RCAF CF-104s in formation

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USAF F-104s modified with probes at the Da Nang Airbase in South Vietnam, 1966.

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RDAF F-104G

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Wow, "Hi Oh, Silver, and Away?" the Lone Ranger's very own Starfighter, with room for your "Sweety" in the back?? do you think anybody in the real world actually took their "Sweety" for a ride?? it only took the "Honey Badger" 24 years to fly with me, she was damned impressed, or maybe just grateful to be back on the ground??? we did a night flight after that, but the circuit breaker on the landing lights popped and wouldn't reset, landing in a black hole on a small grass strip with LOT's of light on the North end, and nothing on the South, it was more of an arrival, but I don't think she realized that, LOL!

now that, is a gorgeous airplane, we've seen video's of the "Starfighters", they were supposed to fly at Scott AFB's open house about 10 years ago, but that was the year the "Starfighter's" went bust, buying all that jet A for 3 aircraft, and maintaining them would put a small country out of business.. I was/am very disappointed...

 

[ArlieCrew]

F-104G starfighter of the Federal German Air Force, one of the 3 German Starfighters which used as test platform of the ZeLL (Zero Length Launch) project in USA between 1963-1966. Berlin-Gatow military aviation museum, Germany. My click.

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TurAF F-104 Starfighter test pilot, Colonel Kemal Yücetürk, AKA: "Toto Kemal". He is still holding the NATO record on fighter aircraft ejection with 6 succesful ejects which all of them from the famous Starfighter jets.

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NF-104A. In 1963 an aircraft with the exact setup piloted by Chuck Yeager during his attemt to break the high-altitude record. Unfortunately he lost control of the aircraft during the attemt and miraculously survived by ejecting himself with severe bruises, a bleeding eyebrow and two lost fingertips.

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Luftwaffe Starfighters in 1965

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TurAF F-104 Starfighters at Diyarbakır Main Jet Base (South Eastern Turkey) during scramble training to retaliate any attack may come from Iraq after the Saddam's threat to hit NATO bases in Turkey with SCUDs in 1987.

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Amazing pictures, especially the vertical line of the XF-104 with the RATO.

 

[Aqua vitae]

Some random pictures of Luftwaffe's F-104 Starfighter's.

Some random pictures of TurAF's F-104 Starfighter's.

Some random pictures of USAF's F-104 Starfighter's.

JF-104A (formerly YF-104A, serial # 55-2961) was modified with a hydrogen peroxide reaction control system (RCS). Following a zoom climb to altitudes in the vicinity of 80,000 feet, the RCS system gave the aircraft controllability in the thin upper atmosphere where conventional control surfaces are ineffective, 1961.

Crater from High-Impact JF-104A Crash. Investigators pore over the site of the nose-first, high-impact JF-104A crash that left this large crater in the desert near Edwards Air Force Base in December 1962.

Some random pictures of NASA's F-104 Starfighter's.

Research pilots do not only fly aircraft and spacecraft. In this 1992 photo, NASA's Steve Ishmael is seated on an ejection seat as it is lifted by a crane out of the back cockpit of a NASA TF-104G.

*EDIT* Some pictures and descriptions were taken directly from NASA's website.

In the end of my thread, i want to add a video of F-104 Starfighter's. This video taken at MacDill Airfest 2008 - Tampa, Florida. Hope you enjoyed(Source)

 

[muck]

Awesome shots. Thanks a bunch!

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I see you did the same mistake as we did: deploying that teeny-weeny rocket as a fighter bomber? ?

 

[santana]

Deutsche F104 G, the widowmaker

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[DENO]

Awesome shots. Thanks a bunch!I see you did the same mistake as we did: deploying that teeny-weeny rocket as a fighter bomber? ?

The first F-104Gs came in 1963 were used as day time interceptors alongside the day/night time interceptor F-102 Delta Daggers and F-100 Super Sabres to fulfill air-to-ground missions. After the acqusition of Phantoms in late 1970s and retirement of F-100s they were used as multirole fighter-bombers but the F-104S bought from Italy remained as interceptor until their retirement from TurAF in 1994.

TurAF might be the one which was used the most different F-104 variants at the same time. During 1980s as the most active years of the aircraft in Turkish service there were around 400 F-104 G/S, TF-104, RF-104 and nuclear capable CF-104 fighters which had bought from various countries like Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Canada and Norway. Also one of the two countries with Italy which operated F-104S ASA with active radar guidance and Aspide BVR missiles.

 

[DENO]

BAF F-104Gs in 1988

SAF F-104Gs

DAF F-104Gs

RDAF F-104Gs intercepting a Soviet Tu-95 Bear bomber circa 1960

 

[DENO]

HAF F-104Gs

JASDF F-104Js

PAF F-104

PAF Shenyang F-6, Mirage III and F-104 Starfighter photographed together

 

[DENO]

USAF F-104s

Chuch Yeager in NF-104A, 1966.

JASDF

Italian F-104S ASA with Selenia Aspide AA missiles in 1969

Luftwaffe F-104Gs in formation 1965

IAF F-104Ss in formation during the retirement fligt in 2004.

 

[RL64RL]

Some awesome pics here -- thanks much!!

 

[santana]

Wings the F-104 Starfighter

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[DENO]

TurAF TF-104G (ex-RNoAF) still flying with Norwegian colours in Turkish service 1987.

TurAF F-104G Starfighters (ex-RNAF, BAF and Luftwaffe ) with Europe service colours in 1980s.

Original TurAF F-104G Starfighters flying with silver body colour and square roundell in 1960s.

First delivery of the Italian made FIAT F-104S Starfighters to TurAF in 1974. Note the planes painted same as the ones in IAF service

LaterCanadian build CF-104 Starfighters in TurAF service with Turkish SEA camouflage variant in comparison with F-104Gs in Turkish service Europe service camo.

 

[Chazman]

USAF, Vietnam.

 

[Chazman]