Ever wanted to check out the cockpit of an F-4 Phantom, F-100 Super Sabre or an F-104 Starfighter? Well you can at the Palm Springs Air Museum. While there are other, larger museums, the ...

The thrills of formation aerobatics in the legendary F-104 Starfighter. Here I am, in the cockpit of an F-104G of the 28° Gruppo (Squadron) belonging to the 3° Stormo (Wing), of the Aeronautica ...

Lightweight. Simple. Fast. The F-104 Starfighter was designed, in a time of increasing aircraft complexity and size, to be a ...

Even at its best, the Starfighter was considered an unforgiving aircraft. In the hands of an inexperienced pilot, this could be deadly. Second, to save money, the Germans made the F-104 their one ...

Following the requests I received from aircraft enthusiasts and modelers, I’ve decided to prepare a specific post to describe differences and peculiarities of the various F-104 versions that ...

Between the Starfighter's limited and not-all-that-impressive stint in the Vietnam War and its service elsewhere, the F-104 earned an aircraft-loss rate of 25.2 per 100,000 flight hours.

When Lockheed's F-104 Starfighter blasts through the sky, it doesn't just fly fast, it howls. Pilots, ground crews, and aviation fans have heard the eerie, piercing sound of the aircraft's engine.

(NASA Photo) Often called “the rocket with a man in it,” the F-104 was the first operational aircraft to sustain Mach 2 speed in flight. It suffered from short range, obsolete avionics ...

Whereas, we have aircraft to do this on a regular basis," Svetkoff said. Starfighters Space operates the world's only commercial fleet of F-104 supersonic jet aircraft. With a small crew of 10 ...