Rich Boys Toys - F104 Starfighter
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@NeeKroVal and your basing this off of what?
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Ahh! The "Earth Nail!"
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@greencurrycamo It held all the time to climb records, but lost every one of them to the T-38.
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They used these to train astronauts for space flight in the 1960's. Chuck Yeager was in one of them when its solid rocket attitude pitch failed to fire at 70k feet. He burned half his face after ejecting on the way down. Some kid found him in the desert off to the side of the road. The poor kid asked if he needed help cause he seen all the blood and burned face, he almost ran off and left him.
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Good looking plane ,but just like big old American cars it cant go around corners.
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canada can't fly
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I thought it was the G variant, built for the West Germans, that started killing pilots. It Too much wing-loading, if I remember correctly
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What in the world is a "Vaught Victor"? Ha!! No such plane! It SOUNDS like the other F-104G that Rick's company flys. They're getting ready to put several more in the air, and all of them are used in government contracts, NOT by "rich boys who want big toys"! I've flown the F-105, F-16, F\A-18, and even the MiG-29UB...but never a '104. Love to, though!
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Sat in that F-104 Rick "Comrade" Svetkoff rocks!
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my father used to be a F-104 pilot.. he says it is the best aircraft he ever flew.. the sound and the acceleration was perfect..
High speed stalls are unforgiving-and often not recoverable
kev123a 4 years ago 11
Ugly? CF-100 Canuck.
Great airplane. Not very pretty.
F-4? Brutally handsome.
raynus1 2 years ago 5