Excellent summary of this flawed but brilliant aircraft.
Very fast. Very capable. Very dangerous to fly.
Simultaneously held world speed, altitude and rate of climb records.
One of a very few aircraft with a downward firing ejector seat.

        http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/f/f/f-104_starfighter.htm


            RM

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>From another world:

> "Theoretically, survive anything that can go wrong (minus epsilon
> such as rolling inverted at 10 feet off the ground)".

Survivable in *some* F104 Starfighters* :-)

One time German not so funny joke:

Q    "How do you acquire a Starfighter?"

A     "Buy a plot of land, and wait."

(They lost over 30% of theirs in crashes).


            RM


* Those with the early Lockheed C1 downward firing ejection seat.

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