F-104 Starfighter

widowmaker said this

Someone can tell me who is the singer . .  or the band ?

Massive Attack...

It was an air-superiority fighter, meant for fighter vs fighter daytime combat.
It was outperforming anything but also did maneuver quite good, depending no the speed (when you're flying mach 1.5, even pulling 9 g's in a turn will require "half of Texas")
The revolutionnary '6-gun' Vulcan 20mm canon was developped indeed fot the Starfighter, which says it all about its mission.

If used, they would have made a legend in North Vietnam...

(p.s We French did suffer as many losses with the Mirage)

My father was in Greek Air Force.I remember this plane. Was fantastic !!!

it really is a starfighter! for its time,it looks like a spaceship.looks more futuristic than the f4 phantom,and i like the phantom

Why did you play the theme song for house ?

why not? It's a great song and a great vid.

Thanks for this nice video. I myself flew the F-104G in NAW2 for the German Navy as combat ready pilot for many years. Unfortunately there were a lot of technical problems within this outstanding airplane, which led to many fatal crashes. But also a lot of so called "pilot errors" led to the high number of accidents. There was simply no room for a mistake, the plane did not allow the slightest mistake by the pilot whatsoever...
But for me and all F-104 pilots: this was the best plane ever. Buddy

This is one of my favorite airplanes. I wish I could have flown one. Nice to here from someone who has flown it. Thanks.