Photos Starfighter Paradise

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Norway Air Force RF-104G (626, 683C-4026) of 331 Skvadron at Greenham Common for International Air Tatoo (24 June 1977)

 

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Royal Canadian Air Force CF-104 :

 

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Turkish F-104G (62-12328, 683D-6027) of 191 Filo at Larissa - Thessalia (July 1972)

 

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USAF F-104A (56-0817, 183-1105) at Victorville Int'l (July 1970)

 

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USAF F-104C fitted with M117 bombs over Vietnam (1966)

 

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USAF F-104C (0-60914) at Da Nang (1965-66)

 

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Transfer of KLu F-104 Starfighters to the TuRAF in 1980.

 

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Lockheed F-104 Starfighter an American single-engine, supersonic fighter aircraft.

First flight of the F-104 was March 4th 1954, introduction to service was February 20th 1958, a very respectable 2,578 were built and despite being retired from US service in 1975 went on to serve with the Italian Air Force all the way until October 31st 2004.

 

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"Widowmakers"

 

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"Widowmakers"

It's an undeserved reputation !!!! Due to the fact that German starfighters were used in bad conditions.

 

[BravoZulu]

It's an undeserved reputation !!!! Due to the fact that German starfighters were used in bad conditions.

Using a high-speed, high-altitude fighter/interceptor for mainly a low-level fighter-bomber is fraught with problems. Add a highly technical aircraft type to a newly reformed air force, operating in the poor weather conditions and with West German pilots having around 400 hours experience before flying the F-104 (USAF pilots had at least 1,500 flight hours of experience prior to flying the F-104) lead to 116 dead pilots

 

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Listen to that sound!

 

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Belgian Air Force 10 Wing Lockheed F-104G Starfighter FX-99 (1982).

 

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German Navy F-104 Starfighter at Luqa, Malta. © Joe Ciliberti.

 

[muck]

The German Navy had a Starfighter demo team called Vikings. Would love to see a renewed version of that.

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Takes a special kind of stupid to use an interceptor with the shortest wingspan ever to fly aerobatics with.

 

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Canadian Armed Forces 421 Squadron Canadair CF-104 Starfighter 104869 at RAF Leuchars (1971).

 

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Belgian F-104G.

 

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Hellenic Air Force 335 Mira Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter 22278/FG-278 (1974).