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    The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is an American single-engine, supersonic interceptor which was extensively deployed as a fighter-bomber during the Cold...
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    The Canadair CF-104 Starfighter (CF-111, CL-90) is a modified version of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter supersonic fighter aircraft built in Canada by...
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    The Lockheed XF-104 Starfighter was a single-engine, high-performance, supersonic interceptor prototype for a United States Air Force (USAF) series of...
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    The Aeritalia F-104S Starfighter was a licensed production Italian version of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, which served in the Italian Air Force, and...
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    Lockheed F-104 Starfighter operators lists the countries and their air force units that operated the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. Belgium operated F-104G and...
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    This is a list of Lockheed F-104 Starfighter variants. Two prototype aircraft equipped with Wright J65 engines (the J79 was not yet ready); one aircraft...
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    Dyna-Soar programs. Three aircraft were modified from existing Lockheed F-104A Starfighter airframes, and served with the Aerospace Research Pilots School between...
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    Lockheed F-104 Starfighter survivors. Please see the Canadair CF-104 Starfighter, Lockheed NF-104A and Aeritalia F-104S pages for their known survivors. F-104G...
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  • modernised. Lockheed F-104 Starfighters were acquired from the United States following heavy losses in the Six-Day War. However, the Starfighter proved superfluous...
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    Lockheed CL-1200 Lancer (category Lockheed F-104 Starfighter)
    company-funded proposal for a fighter aircraft based on the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. The CL-1200 was conceived and marketed mainly for and to non-US military...
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  • The Starfighters, a 1964 film about F-104 pilots Starfighter: Sie wollten den Himmel erobern [de], a 2015 German film about the investigation of F-104's...
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    Kennedy (October 3, 2019). "Cold War: Lockheed F-104 Starfighter". ThoughtCo. "Aircraft: Starfighter F-104G". NASA Airborne Science Program. Retrieved...
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    worldwide. Among its major uses was the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, Convair B-58 Hustler, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, North American A-5 Vigilante and...
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    American F-100 Super Sabre (1953) Convair F-102 Delta Dagger (1953) Grumman F-11 Tiger (1954) McDonnell F-101 Voodoo (1954) Lockheed F-104 Starfighter (1954)...
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  • Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star, trainer jet Lockheed F-94 Starfire, all-weather fighter' Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, interceptor and later a multi-mission fighter...
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    airframe of the F-104 Starfighter, sharing the honor with General Electric (J79 engine) and U.S. Air Force (Flight Records). The F-104 was designated the...
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    the 479th was re-equipped with a new aircraft: the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. The Starfighter was primarily intended for a nuclear strike, but Tactical...
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    jets was replaced in the 1960s by newer fighters like the F-104 Starfighter, F-4C Phantom and F-5 Freedom Fighter After the death of dictator Franco in...
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    series Mystery Science Theater 3000 as the subject of episode #612. An F-104 Starfighter flown by Captain John Christopher, USAF, intercepts the USS Enterprise...
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    of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, Northrop’s interest in the lightweight fighter concept would ultimately come to fruition with the F-5 Freedom Fighter...
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  • CL-288 was a conceptual interceptor aircraft based on the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, powered by two wing-mounted engines. "Lockheed Aircraft Corporation...
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    Canada formed a working group to examine replacements for the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, initially called the Multi Role Aircraft (MRA), later renamed as...
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    were studied, including stripped-down versions of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and Vought F-8 Crusader, and the newly designed Northrop N-156F. On 23 April...
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  • Tornado IDS, although it can be carried on the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. The MW-1 started to be phased out after...
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    North American Eagle Project (category Lockheed F-104 Starfighter)
    abandoned. The vehicle was based on the fuselage of a Lockheed F-104A-10 Starfighter jet fighter aircraft, tail number 56-0763, The aircraft was built...
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    jet fighters formerly operated by the JASDF, a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and a Mitsubishi F-1. Yoshida, Reiji U.S. Forces Japan marks HQ’s 50th anniversary...
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    Lockheed bribery scandals (category Lockheed F-104 Starfighter)
    in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft, including the F-104 Starfighter, the so-called "Deal of the Century". Former Lockheed lobbyist Ernest...
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    turbojet, and is thus comparable to the American Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter and the French Dassault Mirage III. Its basic...
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    and 1965. It was powered by a General Electric J79 taken from an F-104 Starfighter. The jet engine had a four-stage afterburner. The first Green Monster...
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    Fighter, Vought A-7 Corsair II, Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, Dassault Mirage III/5 and Saab's Draken. The F-5 and Mirage 5 were the favourites while the...
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