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The F-104 Starfighter Was Called The “Widowmaker” For One Reason
The F-104 Starfighter was designed, in a time of increasing aircraft complexity and size, to be a straightforward, ...
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Chuck Yeager Loved The F-104 Starfighter. Everyone Else Hated It.
The F-104 Starfighter was not built for dogfights. In fact, Lockheed’s designers purposely sacrificed maneuverability for ...
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Italian F-104 versions explained
Following the requests I received from aircraft enthusiasts and modelers, I’ve decided to prepare a specific article to describe differences and peculiarities of the various F-104 versions that ...
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The F-104 Starfighter Was Called The “Widowmaker” For One Reason
Indeed, the F-104 set records for air speed, altitude, and time-to-climb in the late 1950s. Nor was West Germany the only foreign operator to have runaway safety problems with the F-104 ...