When Lockheed's F-104 Starfighter blasts through the sky, it doesn't just fly fast, it howls. Pilots, ground crews, and aviation fans have heard the eerie, piercing sound of the aircraft's engine.

September 1965 - A group of four F-104 Starfighter aircraft takes off from Da Nang Air Base in South Vietnam for another routine patrol over the Gulf of Tonkin. One of the aircraft withdraws, and ...

You don't go down to the F-104 store and by another one." In its heyday, the aircraft was considered a state-of-the-art and offered its occupants a real thrill ride, said Lilac, who flew one of ...

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The F-104’s safety record was, frankly, atrocious. Lightweight. Simple. Fast. The F-104 Starfighter was designed, in a time of increasing aircraft complexity and size, to be a straightforward ...

The F-104 could climb 50,000 feet in under five minutes. Its original nickname among American pilots was a “Missile with a Man in It.” Lockheed first tested the F-104 in 1954.

Nicknamed "the missile with a man in it," the needle-nosed F-104 Starfighter is a Cold War-era interceptor jet developed by the U.S. Air Force and flown by NATO nations. In 1958-59, the sleek ...

The MAPS Air Museum saved a damaged two-seat F-104 Starfighter from being scrapped and plans to restore it for display. The Starfighter was damaged when the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (FFO) was ...

British pilot Eric Brown said the F-104 was an airplane that “has to be flown every inch of the way.” The U.S. required pilots to have 1,500 flight hours before climbing into the F-104.

As part of the show, the U.S. Air Force had deployed a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter — then a truly state-of-the-art symbol of the country’s technology and military prowess.