An F-16, F/A-18 and A-6 greet visitors outside the museum. Until recently the museum consisted of three large hangars with a smattering of parked aircraft outside.

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was one of the fastest jets of its time, but it came with a cost. Dubbed the "Flying Coffin", this aircraft had an alarmingly high crash rate. Was it a revolutionary ...

Starfighter was designed, in a time of increasing aircraft complexity and size, to be a straightforward, single-engine rocket ship, capable of intercepting and deterring during a period fraught with ...

F-104A Starfighter #734 on a dry lakebed during research flights. (NASA Photo) Often called “the rocket with a man in it,” the F-104 was the first operational aircraft to sustain Mach 2 speed ...

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.

You don't go down to the F-104 store and by another one." In its heyday, the aircraft was considered a state-of-the-art and offered its occupants a real thrill ride, said Lilac, who flew one of ...

Designed as a supersonic air superiority fighter, the F-104 Starfighter was a technological marvel when it first took to the sky in the 50s. Armed with a six-barrel M-61 20mm Vulcan cannon, it ...

On Sept. 19 2003, I flew an airborne pickup with Col. Miniscalco (with an MB.339 carrying tip + pylon tanks) in order to rejoin with the F-104 MM6930 on the day of the roll-out of the 9-99.

“The F-104 Starfighter is one of the few aircraft out there with a performance envelope that allows a realistic flight environment-like launch and glide-to-landing profiles of some of the next ...

Caption: SwRI researchers and suborbital payload specialists are undergoing flight training aboard F-104 aircraft operated by Starfighters Inc. Courtesy Southwest Research Institute ...

Image: SwRI researchers and suborbital payload specialists are undergoing flight training aboard F-104 aircraft operated by Starfighters Inc. Image courtesy of Southwest Research Institute Image ...