Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
Season 1Episode 1060 minFeb 19, 2009
Lockheed's F-104 Starfighter first appeared in the mid-50s. Its appearance is beguiling. It looks like an unusually long, shiny silver bullet to which someone has attached two small stubby wings and a delicate empennage. It looks fast -- and it was.
It was intended to be a replacement for the fleet of aging F-86s and F-84s and in fact it was an improvement in many respects over the older airplanes, especially in speed. It was a relatively unsophisticated lightweight airplane and the USAF wasn't very enthusiastic about it. It had little range, its stubby wings couldn't carry any ordinance, and it lacked the radar that would have made it operable in poor weather.
But NATO too was looking for a standard interceptor for Europe, an environment for which the Starfighter wasn't well suited.
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter has aired on Feb 19, 2009 at 10:00 PM
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