Six of the US Air Force’s most iconic aircraft were featured in the 1983 film The Right Stuff—each of which played a role in advancing America’s exploration of space.
Few months before the retirement from the active service, the Aeronautica Militare organized an airshow to bid farewell to the iconic “manned missile”. The F-104 wrote the final chapter of its ...
It quickly became obvious that it was not really what the U.S. Air Force (USAF) wanted, and it was quietly shunted to the sidelines. The first futuristic-looking F-104 Starfighter flew in early 1956 ...
On March 4, 1954, the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter soared into the skies for its maiden flight, marking the debut of one of the most iconic jet fighters of the Cold War. Designed as a supersonic ...
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 served ...
First of all, we learn that the F/RF-104G (the single-seater fighter and recon version of the previously-released TF-104 G) wil be released by SimSkunkWorks “in a couple of days.” While the developer ...