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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell McMahon" <apptech@paradise.net.nz>
To: "PIC List" <PICLIST@MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 7:59 AM
Subject: [OT] Excellent F104 Starfighter page


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