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Uploaded by on May 8, 2006

This video caught at Patrick's Aviation (www.patricksaviation.com) shows a flight from inside a F-104 Starfighter from German Luftwaffe. Lock your seat belts, seat back and enjoy the flight but don't forget to report engine RPM to your ground officer during startup!!!

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  • So why is it that the ground crew stands next to the plane and waits until the RPM's reach a certain point (40%? 50%?). The pilot signals him, and it looks like he detaches something. I assume it started with compressed air; does the engine not sustain itself until it's running at 50% rpms, or what? I never noticed that before.

  • @tdrelli Uh...what?

  • @TokioHotelAnti I think I could think of a number of bigger fails in German military history. Stalingrad comes to mind. The Battle of Britain. Etc, etc. Buying the wrong plane is pretty mild in comparison. And they didn't loose a war because of it.

  • @justforever96 3 words "cool story bro"

  • @MsAchmedtheterrorist

    Hab die Dinger als Kind live erlebt wenn die über unser Haus geflogen sind.Da haben die Gläser in den Schränken gewackelt.

  • The Starfighter was the biggest fail in the german army's history

  • Geile Soundkulisse stellt euch mal auch da ohne Gehörschutz daneben.

  • that damned thing wasn`t a bad one,it was just used the wrong way.

    One of the mainreasons why it crashed simply was because it was overloaded.Its short wings were just not able to carry the load of a bomber.

    But it had an increadeble sound.I remember them flying over our house in the 70s ,low level at supersonic speed,and a few seconds later there was the big bang.Good old times.

  • @denmalski I'm sorry after I went back to double check my sources I found that I made a booboo. it wasn't the shock cone that is moving but the guide inlet veins that move. they shift at 80% rpm and that causes the 104 howl. I thought that was the name of the shock cone. the 104 also an excellent low level one pass haul ass nuclear strike fighter. to this day the 104 holds the fastest low level speed record.

  • @denmalski And more:

    "...the F-104, which is an interceptor requiring less maneuvering than the F-4 or F-15, has a fixed, semi-conical, two-step inlet cone and fixed inlet lip. The F-104 operates from zero velocity up to Mach 2.2 and is probably optimized for a narrow flight profile, being an interceptor. In order to engage an enemy aircraft the F-104 is still required to perform a range of maneuvers at various altitudes, velocities, and angles of attack.

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