On this day in aviation history, March 4, 1954, the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter took to the skies for the first time. Designed ...

This final farewell occurred quietly, away from the limelight, as if the Aeronautica, which had celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first F-104 flight with an International Meeting the previous ...

The view was pretty wild, though. The fastest I could get the F-104 on my first flight was Mach 1.4. Though I think with a little practice I could probably figure out how to get past Mach 2.

Even though the F-104 Starfighter was retired by the Italian Air Force in 2005 (last operational flight on Oct. 31 ... of the end of the historic first Rome – Tokyo emerged online recenlty.

Under this proposal, the forthcoming F-104G Starfighter was to have ... not the vehicle itself. The XF-104 took its first flight in 1954. The mechanical problems started soon after.

Development of the F-104 began in 1952, and the first XF-104 made its initial flight in 1954. As YF-104A testing continued into 1956, the first USAF contract was placed on Mar. 2, for 146 F-104As ...

But it was a non-Western nation, Pakistan, that notched the F-104’s first air-to-air kill. During the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War, on September 6, 1965, Pakistani Air Force Flight Lieutenant Aftab ...

When Lockheed's F-104 Starfighter blasts through ... As one of the first jet engines designed for sustained supersonic flight, the J79 was a marvel of its time. It was compact, powerful, and ...

(NASA Photo) Often called “the rocket with a man in it,” the F-104 was the first operational aircraft to sustain Mach 2 speed in flight. It suffered from short range, obsolete avionics ...

First checked out in the 104 in 1961, Tom “Sharkbait ... first fighter to exceed Mach 2 in level flight. The Air Force ordered 147 single-seat F-104As. Within three years Starfighters shattered ...

As a new student, I got my first flight in the back seat of an F-104 with an instructor, Major Frank E. Liethen, as he conducted a functional check flight, or FCF. Regulations called for an FCF ...