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.
I was in Japan when Tanaka resigned after Lockheed bribed them into buying the F-104. I saw one during "Friendship Day" at Iwakuni. That's Armed Forces Day to us, but Japan was still extremely sensitive about the military back then. It was a beautiful airplane, especially next to our F-4 Phantoms.
A bit of scouring the internet and I found a drag race between a Ferrari F1 car and a Starfighter. "Eight years later, in 1989, the Italian Air Force gifted Ferrari one of its decommissioned F-104s, painted bright red, with the Ferrari crest on its jet nacelle. This jet now sits at Fiorano, carrying the number 4-27: ‘4’ for the number of the squadron that adopted Baracca’s signature symbol back in the First World War, and ’27’ for the racing number of Gilles Villeneuve." From here......https://driving.ca/car-culture/people/gilles-villeneuve-ferrari-italian-fighter-jet-race Al_in_Ottawa
I had had the honor to know a Starfighter pilot. He was a little guy but a total badass. I had total respect for him. He said that the only way the Starfighter worked as an airplane was to fly the fuck out of it. You took off screamin', you flew it screamin' and you landed it screamin' or it fell out of the sky.
A red F-104 widowmaker!
ReplyDeleteI was in Japan when Tanaka resigned after Lockheed bribed them into buying the F-104. I saw one during "Friendship Day" at Iwakuni. That's Armed Forces Day to us, but Japan was still extremely sensitive about the military back then. It was a beautiful airplane, especially next to our F-4 Phantoms.
ReplyDeleteItalian F-104S licence built in Italy. The Italians improved the Starfighter and made it a multi-role fighter bomber.
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A bit of scouring the internet and I found a drag race between a Ferrari F1 car and a Starfighter.
ReplyDelete"Eight years later, in 1989, the Italian Air Force gifted Ferrari one of its decommissioned F-104s, painted bright red, with the Ferrari crest on its jet nacelle. This jet now sits at Fiorano, carrying the number 4-27: ‘4’ for the number of the squadron that adopted Baracca’s signature symbol back in the First World War, and ’27’ for the racing number of Gilles Villeneuve."
From here......https://driving.ca/car-culture/people/gilles-villeneuve-ferrari-italian-fighter-jet-race
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Mafia Air Force, it is not just a joke.
ReplyDeleteI had had the honor to know a Starfighter pilot. He was a little guy but a total badass. I had total respect for him. He said that the only way the Starfighter worked as an airplane was to fly the fuck out of it. You took off screamin', you flew it screamin' and you landed it screamin' or it fell out of the sky.
ReplyDeleteThe missile with a man in it.
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