And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Yes I did, a lot! To win a bet I sliced an apple on the leading edge of the wing of 703 last summer at the dedication of the CF-104 museum in Winnipeg Manitoba.
Having done some maintenance on these long ago, I'll agree, man in a missile. But to raise a finer point, this is the penultimate definition of a F-104: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_NF-104A One of these can be seen sitting on a pole outside the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB. Men who flew it loved it - those who survived the experience! FTFY Wandering Neurons
In a biography of her there is quite a bit of information about the plane. It could be a real handful to fly, due to the small wing and control areas -- a pilot could quickly get himself into trouble.
The pilots who learned how to fly it, though, loved it.
When I was a kid, my dad was assigned to do geological field work at Edwards AFB. He took the whole family. Us kids used to hear sonic booms all the time. I guess it was a combination of the X-15 and these babies.
The men who flew it, loved it
ReplyDeleteYes I did, a lot! To win a bet I sliced an apple on the leading edge of the wing of 703 last summer at the dedication of the CF-104 museum in Winnipeg Manitoba.
DeleteHaving done some maintenance on these long ago, I'll agree, man in a missile. But to raise a finer point, this is the penultimate definition of a F-104:
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_NF-104A
One of these can be seen sitting on a pole outside the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB.
Men who flew it loved it - those who survived the experience! FTFY
Wandering Neurons
The Puerto Rico ANG flew these in the early 70's.....the people called them "Los Bandidos"....
ReplyDeleteThe Germans called 'em something else:
Deletehttps://www.spangdahlem.af.mil/News/Commentaries/Display/Article/730527/f-104-germanys-widow-maker/
Oddly enough, on this day in 1991, the Luftwaffe retired its last Starfighter.
DeleteJackie Cochran set her Mach 2 records in one.
ReplyDeleteIn a biography of her there is quite a bit of information about the plane. It could be a real handful to fly, due to the small wing and control areas -- a pilot could quickly get himself into trouble.
The pilots who learned how to fly it, though, loved it.
When I was a kid, my dad was assigned to do geological field work at Edwards AFB. He took the whole family. Us kids used to hear sonic booms all the time. I guess it was a combination of the X-15 and these babies.
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