Finn Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 What's left of CF-104D 666: the a/c was written off in a takeoff accident in 1975. Jari Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andre Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Does anyone here happen to have good pics of the Taiwanese LOROP birds with the extende nose? Cheers, Andre Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Wow..those are great shots. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tdogg Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 What's left of CF-104D 666: the a/c was written off in a takeoff accident in 1975. Jari wonder if it's tail code had anything to do with the crash..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 Bump. Great photos by the way guys. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BeeJee Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 F-104G Quote Link to post Share on other sites
X-Plane Fan Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 I was going through my files the other day when I came across this old Lockheed proposal for the F-104 Dogfighter. It looks like this was Lockheed's answer to the F-20. The full report is here: http://www.edwardsflighttest.com/pics/F-104-Dogfighter.pdf Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andre Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 I was going through my files the other day when I came across this old Lockheed proposal for the F-104 Dogfighter. Interesting - thanks! Cheers, Andre Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chris717 Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 A few walk around pics of the NMUSAF's F-104C, notable as the winner of William Tell '62: http://www.aircraftplans.info/f-104.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nfiler Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Chris, I really doubt if this bird won at William Tell. The pilot might have but not in that bird. The 479th TAC fighter Group was a Tactical Air Command organization and thus not eligible to participate in an ADC event. 914 was assigned to the 434th when I was at George. Another thing you might reconsider is the wing pylons did NOT carry AIM 9 Sidewinders. The only thing we carried there was tanks. Later in VN they used those pylons to carry dumb bombs. I would also take exception to the comments regarding fuel and range. With air-to-air refueling range wasn't a big issue. Like every other strike fighter in VN , tankers supported the strike both coming and going. Without those tankers nobody was going downtown. We flew about the same cycle with the F-104Cs as we had with the previous F-100C. Fuel is always in short supply no matter what you're flying. Probably the only guys that never worry about it are the tanker guys. Everybody else sweats the fuel as soon as he unplugs from the tanker. Norm Filer Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nfiler Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Well, that is a horse on me. Just looked up the William Tell winners and guess what? Chris is right. I left the Air Force in 1960 and while I was there TAC could not play in the ADC competition. We always figured we were better than those ADC guys and maybe the win in '62 proves it. &>) Norm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chris717 Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, nfiler said: We always figured we were better than those ADC guys and maybe the win in '62 proves it. &>) Norm Certainly seemed that way in '62! ;-) And of course, you're absolutely right on the Sidewinder carriage. Sloppiness on my part. I was probably getting the underwing stations mixed up with the underfuselage launcher (Grindstone mod?) that was wasn't used in service by US -104s in any case... Edited July 20, 2017 by Chris717 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Frank99 Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 Here's a highly detailed virtual view of Starfighter Aerospace's fleet of F-104 research vehicles stationed at the Kennedy Space Center. This is the world's largest private fleet of F-104s (10 aircraft). They include an 'S' model, 2-seaters and an early 'B' model. They were purchased from Germany and Italy. http://vintagetin.net/F-104Starfighter/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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