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Pilot Zone => Pilot Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on August 03, 2022, 02:49:26 PM

Title: Lockheed F-104 Starfighters full maintenance flight, Black Beauty, with audio
Post by: Lucifer on August 03, 2022, 02:49:26 PM

Title: Re: Lockheed F-104 Starfighters full maintenance flight, Black Beauty, with audio
Post by: Anthony on August 03, 2022, 03:55:32 PM

I love this airplane.  It's the one in the Star Trek episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday" which is one of my favorites.  Too cool, but a handful and had a rep as a "widowmaker". Don't know if that's true.  I've read that the West Germans bought them then wished they bought the Dasault Mirage III instead.  Don't know if that's true, either. Not a dogfither but a very capable plane none the less.  What a hotrod rocket ship.

Title: Re: Lockheed F-104 Starfighters full maintenance flight, Black Beauty, with audio
Post by: Rush on August 03, 2022, 06:11:04 PM

Wow, yes, very cool.  That’s also one of my favorite Star Trek episodes.

Title: Re: Lockheed F-104 Starfighters full maintenance flight, Black Beauty, with audio
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on August 03, 2022, 07:22:50 PM

When I was stationed in Glia Bend, AZ the German pilots trained in those.

Title: Re: Lockheed F-104 Starfighters full maintenance flight, Black Beauty, with audio
Post by: nddons on August 08, 2022, 12:51:21 PM

I love that plane. Amazing some militaries used it as a fighter vs an interceptor.

Title: Re: Lockheed F-104 Starfighters full maintenance flight, Black Beauty, with audio
Post by: Bamaflyer on August 21, 2022, 06:25:24 AM

Think he mentioned 210 approach speed…wow. When I was stationed in W. Germany the German Air Force would occasionally buzz our airfield during exercises. Amazing jet. A guy in Montgomery AL had one years ago. Think he was a former Marine pilot. He had a Mig-15 and a British fighter too.

Title: Re: Lockheed F-104 Starfighters full maintenance flight, Black Beauty, with audio
Post by: Bamaflyer on August 25, 2022, 07:27:55 AM

Quote from: nddons on August 08, 2022, 12:51:21 PM

I love that plane. Amazing some militaries used it as a fighter vs an interceptor.

Air Force used it for a short time in ‘Nam

https://www.thecolumbiastar.com/articles/the-f-104-starfighter-part-two-combat/