The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was a supersonic interceptor jet that flew in the U.S. Air Force beginning in the 1950s. The F ...

The military re-evaluated its priorities with fighter jets. Rather than optimizing airframes to sustain high speeds, it ...

BHPian skanchan95 recently shared this with other enthusiasts:1:72 Lockheed F-104A Starfighter 56-804, No.9 Sqdn Pakistan Air ...

On this day in aviation history, March 4, 1954, the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter took to the skies for the first time. Designed ...

He straps silver spurs to his black boots and climbs into the cockpit and attaches the spurs to the ejection seat of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, an airplane that, nearly 50 years after its ...

Zoom climbs in the rocket-boosted NF-104 could top out at 120,000 feet in zero gravity. The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter looked more like a rocket than an airplane. Out in front was a sharply ...

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 ...