CF-104D 104633/N104 at Williams Gateway Airport in Mesa, Arizona. (photo via Platinum Fighter Sales) Platinum Fighter Sales is selling a flyable cold war-era F-104 starfighter fighter jet for sale for $850,000. The Aircraft in question is a Royal Canadian Air Force / Royal Norwegian Air Force CF-104D 104633/N104. Lockheed built …
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The Cold War Footage below, filmed in March 1984, during exercise “Highway ’84”, is particularly interesting as it shows an aircraft rarely seen operating from public roads: an F-104G Starfighter of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) in “heavy” (tip + pylon tanks) configuration. The video shows the F-104G “23+30”, belonging …
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Taken on Jul. 9-11, 2019 the cool video in this post features a TF-104G belonging to Starfighters Aerospace flown by Piercarlo Ciacchi intercepting Gulfstream G650ER during World Record Flight “One More Orbit” from the Kennedy Space Center and back through the poles. According to Starfighters’ website, the company operates the …
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On Jul. 4, 2019, Robert J. “Bob” Gilliland, former Lockheed test pilot and the first man to fly the iconic SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, died at the age of 93 at Rancho Mirage, California retirement facility where he had been living for several years. The death was announced by his …
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Speed and agility are decisive advantages in any form of aerial dominance. An airspeed record is the highest airspeed attained by an aircraft of a particular class. Modern Fighter jets operate at supersonic speed Supersonic travel is a rate of travel of an object that exceeds the speed of sound. …
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