Definition of TRANSONIC: being or relating to speeds near that of sound in air or about 741 miles (1185 kilometers) per hour at sea level and especially to speeds slightly below the speed of sound at which the speed of airflow varies from subsonic to supersonic at different points along the surface of a body in motion relative to the surrounding air.
It's not transonic because the "sound" of the aircraft comes before of the aircraft. In transonic and axpecially in supersonic flight you will hear the aircraft after its passage.
Woah are you all fucking idiots?!?! The second pass is transonic (faster then mach1). If you'd actually watch the whole video and read the description you might save yourself from looking like total tools.
how is it possible to have transonic flight and hear the plane coming before it reaches the camera? And I'm talking for the second pass. Appart from that when a plane reaches the speed of sound there is a halo of condensation due to air pressure change from subsonic to supersonic flight. Aparently there isn't any halo here.
@viper8red Transonic: Subsonic flight velocity defined by localized super sonic flow regions attached to the airfoil upper surface. Typical flight velocities of M .88-.99. "...you might save yourself from looking like total tools."
@irunthistown1000 Oh boy, now your trying to go to critical measurements of speed of airflow over an airfoil in order to prove your case. That's not desperate! You fail! Now STFU. This is not a transonic flyby, give it a rest.
certainly has its gear down, but can't be transonic as at such speeds (almost the speed of sound, at least 1000km/h) the landing gear would be ripped off the plane due to drag.
So, what would one of these planes do if we could put one of those new Pratt & Whitney F135. 43,000 lbs. of max thrust!!! I want starfighters. The raptor and lightning II just don't have the elegance of this airplane.
Look up a Rafale or a Gripen. Or the Harrier, for that matter, which was actually manufacted, designed, and researched entirely by Great Britain, and simply bought by America. Research before you make ignorant generalizations, my friend.
the f-104 is american, the f-104 will out climb, out run and out maneuver anything the US has today. Mach 2, still holding the time to climb record for 40,000ft. Not bad for 1950's technology I would say.
out climb and out run? most definitely... it didn't earn it's reputation as the "missile with a man in it" by being slow, lol. but it had a turn radius the size of texas. speed was what designer kelly johnson wanted, and that's what he got. the f-104 was an intercepter, so maneuverability wasn't as big of a concern top speed and acceleration.
@Polybun- Uh...I don't know about all that! Maybe initial climb, possibly maximum speed, but definetly not maneuverability. The Starfighter makes a better rocket ship than some modern fighters, but as an all around combat plane, it is lacking.
Are you retarded, Sub means below, trans means transitional. He has them perfectly correct. Go back to high school and this time, pay attention you stupid fagot.
Wow, you should watch the whole thing before you laugh at people. The SECOND pass was indeed much faster, without landing gear extended. Good job, your observational skills are extraordinary. XD
Transonic refers to airflow around the aircraft. When you reach that situation where some airflow around the aircraft is supersonic (critical Mach number), but some local airflow around the aircraft is still subsonic. Once ALL airflow passing around the aircraft is supersonic, then you're out of the transonic regime and in supersonic flight. Yes, you can have over 1.0 on the AMI, and still be transonic (even though your TAS would come out to supersonic velocity).
@jasfromoz ok well its better then the guy who said it was 45 mph lol ya this pass is probly more like 300 then the second might be going 500 its hard to tell tho not really any referance points
First off the Transonic reference is for the second flyby not the first you bunch of retards. Second, transonic is a region of speed, not a set speed. Since you don't know how fast it was going you can't say it wasn't transonic.
This specific model is the ferrari f104. Lockheed painted a f104 in ferrari red and put the prancing horse on the tail. This plane is located right now in the middle of the fiorano test track in maranello, italy
Videos can't do justice to how noisy this aircraft can be. Once, I was in a car while two F-104s were landing, some 100 meters away. The noise and vibration coming from the jets made me think the car was about to come apart!
and it did make lots of widows, nevertheless a pilot who could fly this craft could fly more or less anything. There is a video somewhere on YouTube showing nowadays expert pilots in a F104 flight simulator. You can hear the stall buzzer beep like crazy and the video ends with the pilot saying "I just can't make it fly". Flying an F22, for example, is definitely easy, since everything is computer assisted, but once the electronics fail it's like flying a brick, no way to keep it in the air...
The F-104 was certainly an aircraft meant to fly a certain way. Not too wide an envelope. I'd suckerpunch my grandmother to have one though, challenging as it might be to fly.
This Starfighter didn't fly at transonic speed: an aircraft surely can't fly in transonic regime with landing gear down, neither at a public air show where the sonic wave would make fall all the spectators and even we can clearly understand, watching the video, that the f-104 is flying at moderate speed
The first pass was with gear down. The second was gear up and much faster. Transonic doesn't mean supersonic. The very definition of the transonic regime is where there is shocked flow somewhere on the aircraft, but not over the entire aircraft (which would be true supersonic).
For something like the F-104, I suspect that it enters the transonic range at around M0.9, and that's certainly a reasonable speed for the second pass.
un aereo non può sicuramente volare in regime transonico con il carrello abbassato, meno che meno lo può fare ad una manifestazione dove l'onda d'urto scaraventerebbe il pubblico a terra e poi lo si vede chiaramente dal video che sta volando ad una velocità moderata
This jet is doing 250 kts in the first frame. The gear was down and retracting. The aircraft has to be in the IAS white arc to retract or extend the gear. Or else the gear will fail from excessive pitot pressure.
i looked it up...vlo (max velocity for landing gear extended) is only 260 knots for f-104's...no where near transonic speeds (speed of sound is around 650 knots i think, depending on temp)
the plane in the video is far from supersonic. The sound barrier is around 700 and 760 knots depending on height and air temperature as well as density.
Transonic is around .8 or .9 mach. It's a distinguished regime of flight because at those speeds, airflow over certain parts of the aircraft will be supersonic.
That is the very first transonic airplane I have seen that has forward sound projector technology! Amazing how it makes sound go faster than the speed of sound, so that one can hear it before it passes! I bet that's some sort of Italian defense technology!
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Wow, Fawjavelin. That looks like the beginning of some real English sentences. Clearly you imply you have superior knowledge. I pray you are not a teacher!
Where are the shock wave depressions?.F104,s used to try to kill us by going round the low flying route in the opposite direction;as a high level interceptor fine low level forget it.
transonic is the speed btween supersonic and sub sonic, in that speed the plane is unstable and there is alot of shaking, so I dont think the pilot want to make a low pass in transonic speed
This plane held the altitude/climb ratio record for more than 3 decades. On top of that, it held the altitude record since it came out until late 1990's... Obsolete in the the 50's? I DON'T THINK SO!
All you guys with so much education and training acting like small boys! Is there no diginity and decorum left among you? Disgraceful behaviour. Just tiny egos scraaoing, when you should be grateful for your knowledge and experience. TSK, TSK!
mmkay im gonna use that knowledge and take a wild guess and say your in the international bachaloreate program better known as ib also known as the boys and girls with almost no lives?
Still holds altitude and speed records set 45 years ago. It's the plane Chuck Yeager had to bail out of when he got burned by the ejection seat rocket
I dont know of anytime that the F-104 held both of the records, the SR-71 Blackbirrd holds both records, 25,929 m and 3,529.56 km/h. The F-104 Starfighter flew at speeds up to and around 2125 km/h. However a variant, the NF-104A did reached 36,830 m. Only record the F-104 Starfighter holds is being a flying lawn dart.
actually, it still holds those records as a figther. The SR-71 isnt a fighter. As far as jet power go, the SR-71 has the records set with the MiG-25 being right on its heals. As for the F-104 being a flying lawn dart....it is. They dont call it the "Mann Missile" or "The Missile with a man in it" for nothin. Imagine if it had a nice PW F100-PW-229 or a Ge F110-GE-492 in it instead of that ole J79. Speed records anyone? Time to climb records?
i am quite familiar with effect of density thanks, if you ask a pilot an aerodynamic or performance question they will usually answer in KIAS. Ask a nav question expect an answer in KTAS. Is not sufficient info to just say 'knots'. If you want an answer reference to the ground you need to specify wind as well.
it's far far away from transonic. As you say its got its gear down, transonic speed will just tear off the gears and according to what i just saw, it's never going to be transonic, i think it's just sort of about 500km/h at the very most
I agree. I thought 400 knots max. I saw a Blue Angle F-18 at 675knots at the Seattle Sea Fair faces last year over lake. Saw the halo and he was only 20 feet off the deck, and the shock pull of the water made it very cool - but it was going WAY faster than this clip.
It's not a very pretty plane... personally F-22 s rule!! YAY! With debate going on back there I think its safe to say I, a 14 y.o AFC knows more about aeronautics and engine than some people (not speaking of anyone in particular...)
ok you could not go transonic with gear down on u would cause major damage.. not a good idea when were they retired cos it says striking off day 31st october 2004
Have you watched the whole video? The first pass is gear down (which wouldn't be Transonic - unless you wanted bits to start removing thmselves from the airframe), the second pass is a high speed, gear up pass. Thats the "transonic" part of the video.
The transonic part comes after the slow part... i can beleive its going 260m/s from that
podman27 2 months ago
Yeah... transonic with the gear down. HAHA!
skipplet 4 months ago
bara volante.. meglio che sia andato in pensione...
FuckTheCommunism 4 months ago
The louder the airplane, the sexier it is.
agumon12 5 months ago
....spettacolare.....
zafficar104 7 months ago
....che nostalgia....era stupendo anche se ormai era superato
zafficar104 7 months ago
Missile with a man in it. Nothing beats the sound of "old smokey" GE J79s .
Nfarce 10 months ago
its not faster than sound. the video proves that. doesnt matter if ti has wings or not it didnt go faster than sound in the video.
datzfast 10 months ago
Definition of TRANSONIC: being or relating to speeds near that of sound in air or about 741 miles (1185 kilometers) per hour at sea level and especially to speeds slightly below the speed of sound at which the speed of airflow varies from subsonic to supersonic at different points along the surface of a body in motion relative to the surrounding air.
*some people will believe anything.
DarwinsFriend 10 months ago
Sorry Bubba. One cannot go trans sonic in the F-104 with the gear down. Nice vid, though.Thanks for posting it.
yakridersky 11 months ago
@yakridersky Well, you can, but it's not going to turn out good lol.
schlusselmensch 10 months ago
lo sai cosa vuol dire transonico?
SuperSensimilia 1 year ago
It's not transonic because the "sound" of the aircraft comes before of the aircraft. In transonic and axpecially in supersonic flight you will hear the aircraft after its passage.
superoldiron 1 year ago
Woah are you all fucking idiots?!?! The second pass is transonic (faster then mach1). If you'd actually watch the whole video and read the description you might save yourself from looking like total tools.
viper8red 1 year ago
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@viper8red
how is it possible to have transonic flight and hear the plane coming before it reaches the camera? And I'm talking for the second pass. Appart from that when a plane reaches the speed of sound there is a halo of condensation due to air pressure change from subsonic to supersonic flight. Aparently there isn't any halo here.
oustres 1 year ago
@viper8red Transonic: Subsonic flight velocity defined by localized super sonic flow regions attached to the airfoil upper surface. Typical flight velocities of M .88-.99. "...you might save yourself from looking like total tools."
Best Regards,
An Aerospace Engineer.
irunthistown1000 1 year ago
@irunthistown1000 Oh boy, now your trying to go to critical measurements of speed of airflow over an airfoil in order to prove your case. That's not desperate! You fail! Now STFU. This is not a transonic flyby, give it a rest.
viper8red 1 year ago
certainly has its gear down, but can't be transonic as at such speeds (almost the speed of sound, at least 1000km/h) the landing gear would be ripped off the plane due to drag.
komepollass 1 year ago
do the italians actually still use starfighters???
SPAZANATA 1 year ago
@SPAZANATA
purtroppo no,prima era operativo fino al 2004.
ma lo usavano per divertirsi e per la nostra e la loro goduria.
massimovolpe 8 months ago
I was there.......a great flight and a skilled pilot: ten.col.Bruno Strozza, commander of 10° - 9° Stormo
carloagtripodi 2 years ago
So, what would one of these planes do if we could put one of those new Pratt & Whitney F135. 43,000 lbs. of max thrust!!! I want starfighters. The raptor and lightning II just don't have the elegance of this airplane.
mindeloman 2 years ago
ITS SUB-SONIC HE HAD HIS GEAR DOWN!
jthqrules 2 years ago
Nice!!
hotdog2020 2 years ago
21sparrow7 that plane is an f-104 starfighter , it's an old american jetfighter.Don't talk about european jets anymore ....
dogfighter95470 2 years ago
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21sparrow7 2 years ago
Look up a Rafale or a Gripen. Or the Harrier, for that matter, which was actually manufacted, designed, and researched entirely by Great Britain, and simply bought by America. Research before you make ignorant generalizations, my friend.
xundeadtengux 2 years ago
You idiot ! The F 104 was American designed and built.
jihadtamer 2 years ago
The F-104 had a top speed of 1,328 mph which is over Mach 2. Plus it was an American built fighter first flown in 1954 entered service in 1958.
cycler2 2 years ago
hahahahahaha!!!Dummie!!
Get some more aircraft´s information...
eslinsaldanha 2 years ago
the f-104 is american, the f-104 will out climb, out run and out maneuver anything the US has today. Mach 2, still holding the time to climb record for 40,000ft. Not bad for 1950's technology I would say.
Polybun 2 years ago
out climb and out run? most definitely... it didn't earn it's reputation as the "missile with a man in it" by being slow, lol. but it had a turn radius the size of texas. speed was what designer kelly johnson wanted, and that's what he got. the f-104 was an intercepter, so maneuverability wasn't as big of a concern top speed and acceleration.
kb3glo 2 years ago
@Polybun- Uh...I don't know about all that! Maybe initial climb, possibly maximum speed, but definetly not maneuverability. The Starfighter makes a better rocket ship than some modern fighters, but as an all around combat plane, it is lacking.
justforever96 2 years ago
Does anyone watch the whole fricken vid....... the second pass was transonic in climb
FSXFCarbine 2 years ago
...I remember them passing by, most of the time in pairs, sometimes alone and occasionally by 4 or even 6!
You could hear them coming from miles away and long after they have passed, the air was still filled with their sound...
This video sure brings back childhood memories, thanks for posting..
( know, Í'm getting old)
greenspirit 2 years ago
does the order go
slowest
1.transonic
2. subsonic
3.super sonic
4.hyper sonic?
mcnastyrangerz 2 years ago
You have got 1 and 2 the wrong way round
PeteEnev 2 years ago
Are you retarded, Sub means below, trans means transitional. He has them perfectly correct. Go back to high school and this time, pay attention you stupid fagot.
Polybun 2 years ago
See 'saybya's comment and you will see who the retard is, may be you! should pay attention!!!
PeteEnev 2 years ago
nope
1. subsonic (anything below the speed of sound)
2. transonic (just before speed of sound)
3. supersonic
4. hypersonic
saybya 2 years ago
this is one of my alltime favorite classic fighters, the sound it makes is music to my ears./
squatchmaster5000 2 years ago
transsonic with gear down....ahahahahaha
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Rindbert 3 years ago 2
I dont think this is transsonic...
fritzu1991 3 years ago
yeah lol, transonic with gear down and low attitude XD
EinundzwanzigPanzer 2 years ago
Wow, you should watch the whole thing before you laugh at people. The SECOND pass was indeed much faster, without landing gear extended. Good job, your observational skills are extraordinary. XD
admiralnomad 2 years ago
Burbank's best!
ANewNormalcy 3 years ago
There is a great plane.
In germany it was the"Witwenmacher"
But its still a great plane.
One turbine
one siluette
one power
one speed
only great
Sorry for my bad english
Greeds Lion
Lionforever1860 3 years ago
Always been my favorite plane.
doctorwhonico 3 years ago
0:26 ....beautiful sounding jet
abhiginimav 3 years ago
Even approaching the speed of sound, the gear would be...so gone.
SCE2AUX 3 years ago
Not even close to transonic!
fbgd 3 years ago 15
transonic is trough the sound barrier or? Sorry im a newb with planes.
SpraymoreXZ 3 years ago
ye, subsonic, then trans sonic, then supersonic, then hypersonic. hyper is 5x
abhiginimav 3 years ago 2
Transonic refers to airflow around the aircraft. When you reach that situation where some airflow around the aircraft is supersonic (critical Mach number), but some local airflow around the aircraft is still subsonic. Once ALL airflow passing around the aircraft is supersonic, then you're out of the transonic regime and in supersonic flight. Yes, you can have over 1.0 on the AMI, and still be transonic (even though your TAS would come out to supersonic velocity).
ThrottlesUp 3 years ago
@fbgd Yeah, that was pretty far from transonic.
BluSTi 6 months ago
Crazy how the wings can take that much pressure!!
SWMoneyMaker 3 years ago
The Starfighter! Bad ass plane!
skrat5 3 years ago
maybe doing around 45mph at least but I,m no expert.
2170821 3 years ago
more around 100 mph
12jason223 3 years ago
F-104? 100 mph? LOL!!!
jasfromoz 2 years ago
@jasfromoz ok well its better then the guy who said it was 45 mph lol ya this pass is probly more like 300 then the second might be going 500 its hard to tell tho not really any referance points
12jason223 2 years ago
@jasfromoz but amazing planes, my grandfather used to fly these ones
12jason223 2 years ago
@jasfromoz That's for the pace car!
antimatterXXXIII 2 years ago
First off the Transonic reference is for the second flyby not the first you bunch of retards. Second, transonic is a region of speed, not a set speed. Since you don't know how fast it was going you can't say it wasn't transonic.
superskullmaster 3 years ago
it is not a super sonic !!
djillali8722 3 years ago 2
transsonic with gear down?yeaaah loool
ejasonk 3 years ago
lol more like Subsonic
Darkfoster22 3 years ago
j79 engine?
beerbrewer737 3 years ago
yes
driftkingz109 3 years ago
This specific model is the ferrari f104. Lockheed painted a f104 in ferrari red and put the prancing horse on the tail. This plane is located right now in the middle of the fiorano test track in maranello, italy
brnrubber303 3 years ago
The F-104, the "missile with a man in it".
WiLLcodeHTML4F00D 3 years ago
ya the 104's are loud but i think the cake goes to the B1-B those things are ridiculously loud
850t5m 3 years ago
HELLZ YEAH!!!!! my grandparents work on a B1-B at Oklahomas Tinker AFB...i love watching them...they are beautiful and fast as hell...
generalLeeISkool 3 years ago
thats slow
KJT922010T 3 years ago
Videos can't do justice to how noisy this aircraft can be. Once, I was in a car while two F-104s were landing, some 100 meters away. The noise and vibration coming from the jets made me think the car was about to come apart!
Florhusband 3 years ago 3
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B-2 Stealth bomber can beat this shit
BikerYamahaR1 3 years ago
it was been the most beautifull plane and built ahead of it's time.
ANIKES 3 years ago 2
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That was the slowest shit I have ever seen. More like transretirementhome pass.
xTITANxFTWx 3 years ago
transonic lmao say that agin slow
melfiire 3 years ago
yeah..that is bull-shit.,.
DirtyThing20 3 years ago
the Starfighter was an absolute bitch to fly ... its nickname was the Widowmaker!!
ThePhantomMajor 3 years ago
and it did make lots of widows, nevertheless a pilot who could fly this craft could fly more or less anything. There is a video somewhere on YouTube showing nowadays expert pilots in a F104 flight simulator. You can hear the stall buzzer beep like crazy and the video ends with the pilot saying "I just can't make it fly". Flying an F22, for example, is definitely easy, since everything is computer assisted, but once the electronics fail it's like flying a brick, no way to keep it in the air...
amgstefani 2 years ago
The F-104 was certainly an aircraft meant to fly a certain way. Not too wide an envelope. I'd suckerpunch my grandmother to have one though, challenging as it might be to fly.
admiralnomad 2 years ago 8
That wasnt low.
lelekoJumboJet 3 years ago
WTF???
210 kts is stall speed on a 104
RacerXGTO 3 years ago
lol manded missle
puppetmaster532 3 years ago
Translated in English
This Starfighter didn't fly at transonic speed: an aircraft surely can't fly in transonic regime with landing gear down, neither at a public air show where the sonic wave would make fall all the spectators and even we can clearly understand, watching the video, that the f-104 is flying at moderate speed
ste149 3 years ago
cool story brah
Johnnythemonkey26728 3 years ago
the F-104 was capable of 1,058mph
greendaysaint8302 3 years ago
The first pass was with gear down. The second was gear up and much faster. Transonic doesn't mean supersonic. The very definition of the transonic regime is where there is shocked flow somewhere on the aircraft, but not over the entire aircraft (which would be true supersonic).
For something like the F-104, I suspect that it enters the transonic range at around M0.9, and that's certainly a reasonable speed for the second pass.
mytube001 3 years ago
Questo f-104 non volava a velocità transonica:
un aereo non può sicuramente volare in regime transonico con il carrello abbassato, meno che meno lo può fare ad una manifestazione dove l'onda d'urto scaraventerebbe il pubblico a terra e poi lo si vede chiaramente dal video che sta volando ad una velocità moderata
ste149 3 years ago
Thunderbird 3 on site over.
Hypacream 3 years ago
Wow, I guess transonic speed got lowered to about 115 knots. Tell me when your posting something not bull shit.
OneSkiWonder 3 years ago
ROFL>Thats not low.
MrCriticOfAll 3 years ago
transonic with gear down huh? bullshit cough cough
0zero000000 3 years ago
Grattaculo guarda tutto il video prima di sparar cazzate!
Ghostrideritaly 3 years ago
si?
0zero000000 3 years ago
ariba taco
saweet999 3 years ago
Love the sound of a 1950s screaming jet engine.
A550RGY 3 years ago
That exhaust trail is pretty conspicuous.
TheXyco 3 years ago
chem drops.
cptskellern 3 years ago
....nothing 'transonic' about this vid.........
spottydog4472 3 years ago 20
This jet is doing 250 kts in the first frame. The gear was down and retracting. The aircraft has to be in the IAS white arc to retract or extend the gear. Or else the gear will fail from excessive pitot pressure.
Killface9 3 years ago
i looked it up...vlo (max velocity for landing gear extended) is only 260 knots for f-104's...no where near transonic speeds (speed of sound is around 650 knots i think, depending on temp)
nagyac0 3 years ago
the plane in the video is far from supersonic. The sound barrier is around 700 and 760 knots depending on height and air temperature as well as density.
Ntalikeris666 3 years ago
what does transonic mean? I heard this word beofre..thanks
miketrue333 3 years ago
It means very close to breaking the sound barrier. say from 730-740 mph. However this vid is not showing a jet at transonic speeds. :)
Coollimes 3 years ago
Thank you for the info...very cool, I think I saw a plane do transonic at airshow in halifax ns,,,thanks..
miketrue333 3 years ago
Transonic is around .8 or .9 mach. It's a distinguished regime of flight because at those speeds, airflow over certain parts of the aircraft will be supersonic.
skipplet 3 years ago 2
That is the very first transonic airplane I have seen that has forward sound projector technology! Amazing how it makes sound go faster than the speed of sound, so that one can hear it before it passes! I bet that's some sort of Italian defense technology!
hdinfo1 3 years ago 6
Yeah! And it says that the gear was down!
Must be pretty strong gear to go transonic with all hanging down.
Nice birds though.
Yllod 3 years ago
sarcasm??
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segalink911 3 years ago
So many arguments on this site with mainly young who want to be what I was ,that I intend NEVER TO MAKE A COMMENT AGAIN,Its sad really.But thats the youth of the modern day world Goodbye get on with it,you will learn.
FAWJAVELIN 3 years ago
Wow, Fawjavelin. That looks like the beginning of some real English sentences. Clearly you imply you have superior knowledge. I pray you are not a teacher!
ronfake1 3 years ago
Oh and ronfake1 sorry but we kind of DO!!!
Amerretto 3 years ago
Im 39 so FUCK OFF CHEESEDICK !!
TelefunkinUFO 3 years ago
youre 39 and you call people cheesedick?
i think you need to grow up a lot
sfplaysguitar 3 years ago
This plane's wings are ridiculously small. I love this damned airplane. If I were a rich bastard, would get me one...or two.
jumpyfroglegs 3 years ago
Jet engine with wings...ahhh...the Starfighter
milwaukee69 3 years ago
all passes are subsonic. they are over ground so it is required
thiekeman11 3 years ago
Sorry I meant to add if you want to see a REAL HOTROD,WATCH VIDEOS OF THE LIGHTNING[The English Electric version]
T43HUNTER 3 years ago
Where are the shock wave depressions?.F104,s used to try to kill us by going round the low flying route in the opposite direction;as a high level interceptor fine low level forget it.
T43HUNTER 3 years ago
Looks like a fucking Thunderbird
melgrin331534 3 years ago
If that´s transonic I can imagine how they drive!! At least their spaguetti cooks fast...
Adolfinthemix 3 years ago
LAL - no shitty way that was transsonic.
g4llic 3 years ago
oh look a glorified thunderbirds rocket
19Sadler 3 years ago
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LMAO! transonic... riiiight....maybe in germany! to them that is transonic!
gregtr82 3 years ago
Trans-sonic my ****
confrey70 3 years ago
that cant be transonic, there is no chance the landing gear would hold up at those kinds of speeds at that kind of altitude...
thelawenforcer001 3 years ago
My ROFLCOPTER goes way faster than that, plus it goes SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI. LOLLOLOLOLOLLOLOLLLOLOLOLLOL!!!!!1!!1
getanadeinthere 3 years ago
hahahahah soi soi soi soi soi soi soi
GuitarMan6293 3 years ago
That sucked lesbos balls!! That was like 15mph! Ive seen faster when I was driving behind a 90 year old Grandmother! BALLLs!
Go F-22 Raptor!!!!!! (now thats fast)
mikydub 3 years ago
hell yeah!
stevenckb 3 years ago
no way that was transsonic lol
startwin 3 years ago
transonic is the speed btween supersonic and sub sonic, in that speed the plane is unstable and there is alot of shaking, so I dont think the pilot want to make a low pass in transonic speed
morphex9903 3 years ago
thats the stupidest looking place ive ever seen
psychosauce 3 years ago
what does transonic mean?
peguin233 3 years ago
This plane was already obsolete when it came out, in the 50s... How can somebody be retarded enough to fly such an airplane, anno 2004??
PjurUtubE 3 years ago
This plane held the altitude/climb ratio record for more than 3 decades. On top of that, it held the altitude record since it came out until late 1990's... Obsolete in the the 50's? I DON'T THINK SO!
junotfranco 3 years ago
I don't believe that this starfighter passes at supersonic speed since the carriage is lowered.
mytiteuf 3 years ago
Also the lack of a sonic boom means it was probably subsonic.
USP1986 3 years ago
is that realy low????????
romanianlover123 3 years ago
i think its all pretty interesting. would be cooler if it was a friendly debate though.
jonesingforsoda 3 years ago
All you guys with so much education and training acting like small boys! Is there no diginity and decorum left among you? Disgraceful behaviour. Just tiny egos scraaoing, when you should be grateful for your knowledge and experience. TSK, TSK!
ib422000 3 years ago
Excuse spelling mistakes. Just typos, and my hands are shaking with ire at you fellows scrapping!
ib422000 3 years ago 3
mmkay im gonna use that knowledge and take a wild guess and say your in the international bachaloreate program better known as ib also known as the boys and girls with almost no lives?
mebagel 3 years ago
i want one
marktimmer2212 3 years ago
subsonic goof
travishartley 3 years ago 3
supersonic goon.
tinohead 3 years ago
ya i dont see any after burners goof. better luck next year kid
travishartley 3 years ago 2
OMG WHAT IS THAT RED PLANE?
Jaymalamin 3 years ago
F-104 Starfighter:
Still holds altitude and speed records set 45 years ago. It's the plane Chuck Yeager had to bail out of when he got burned by the ejection seat rocket
DG121480 3 years ago
cheers dude
Jaymalamin 3 years ago
I dont know of anytime that the F-104 held both of the records, the SR-71 Blackbirrd holds both records, 25,929 m and 3,529.56 km/h. The F-104 Starfighter flew at speeds up to and around 2125 km/h. However a variant, the NF-104A did reached 36,830 m. Only record the F-104 Starfighter holds is being a flying lawn dart.
Gadmeer 3 years ago
actually, it still holds those records as a figther. The SR-71 isnt a fighter. As far as jet power go, the SR-71 has the records set with the MiG-25 being right on its heals. As for the F-104 being a flying lawn dart....it is. They dont call it the "Mann Missile" or "The Missile with a man in it" for nothin. Imagine if it had a nice PW F100-PW-229 or a Ge F110-GE-492 in it instead of that ole J79. Speed records anyone? Time to climb records?
6V92TA 3 years ago
that is being held by thr f-16!!!! give me a f-5, or better the f-20
spitmac 3 years ago
the lawn dart comment, it's the f-16
spitmac 3 years ago
One last thing for Doover Boy:
IF you are a pilot, you would know about temperature and the effect on takeoff distance. Assume 100% efficiency for the engine.
Why does it take more runway to takeoff when the temp is high? It is NOT the temp Dufus, even thought the TEMP causes the real ISSUE.
Man, go and study this please.
Maxwell2323 3 years ago
i am quite familiar with effect of density thanks, if you ask a pilot an aerodynamic or performance question they will usually answer in KIAS. Ask a nav question expect an answer in KTAS. Is not sufficient info to just say 'knots'. If you want an answer reference to the ground you need to specify wind as well.
dooverlaki 3 years ago
it's far far away from transonic. As you say its got its gear down, transonic speed will just tear off the gears and according to what i just saw, it's never going to be transonic, i think it's just sort of about 500km/h at the very most
NotZezima 3 years ago
I agree. I thought 400 knots max. I saw a Blue Angle F-18 at 675knots at the Seattle Sea Fair faces last year over lake. Saw the halo and he was only 20 feet off the deck, and the shock pull of the water made it very cool - but it was going WAY faster than this clip.
Maxwell2323 3 years ago
the red jet is pretty...........
1hijax 3 years ago
Dooverlaki:
Does your Cessna fly because the airflow delta on the top and bottom of the airfoil creates a pressure imbalance that is enough to lift the plane?
If so, how fast would you have to fly on takeoff to create enough lift to take-off?
Please explain for all of us that are not smart.
Maxwell2323 3 years ago
Assuming you want the answer in KIAS, the answer depends on take off weight of the aircraft.
dooverlaki 3 years ago
It's not a very pretty plane... personally F-22 s rule!! YAY! With debate going on back there I think its safe to say I, a 14 y.o AFC knows more about aeronautics and engine than some people (not speaking of anyone in particular...)
DidYouPortrayIt 3 years ago
the red jet is pretty.
1hijax 3 years ago
lol thats nothing...
try "german f-4 in low pass" germans know how to fly
xROFLmanx 3 years ago
its not called transonic, its called supersonic, and this F-104 didnot break the sound barrier
fuckbush009 4 years ago
Transonic is the region between subsonic and supersonic flight speeds.
TRANSition to superSONIC = TRANSONIC!
From the quality of the video its hard to tell if it actually is a transonic pass though; irrespective its still a cool plane and a cool little video!
tbtstt 4 years ago 2
ok you could not go transonic with gear down on u would cause major damage.. not a good idea when were they retired cos it says striking off day 31st october 2004
justalilrandom 4 years ago
Have you watched the whole video? The first pass is gear down (which wouldn't be Transonic - unless you wanted bits to start removing thmselves from the airframe), the second pass is a high speed, gear up pass. Thats the "transonic" part of the video.
Watch the WHOLE video before commenting dude!
tbtstt 4 years ago
heres an idea yes i missed the end of the movie but relax and oh fuck off
justalilrandom 4 years ago
Er, I was just trying to answer your question, but if you'd rather "fuck off" instead of "thanks for correcting me" then thats fine.
Prick.
tbtstt 4 years ago
no u werent JUST trying to answer my queston you thought you would be a smart arse
justalilrandom 4 years ago
Stop crying.
PoignantFeticide 4 years ago
oh yeah cos im crying.... stay out of it
justalilrandom 4 years ago
Eat a dang, mate.
PoignantFeticide 4 years ago 2
erm no how bout get ur nose out where it doesnt belong?
justalilrandom 4 years ago
Its the internet, douchebag. My nose belongs everywhere. Man up, and wipe away those tears, biotch.
PoignantFeticide 4 years ago 2