Few months before the retirement from the active service, the Aeronautica Militare organized an airshow to bid farewell to the iconic “manned missile”. The F-104 wrote the final chapter of its ...

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was a supersonic interceptor jet that flew in the U.S. Air Force beginning in the 1950s. The F-104 was designed to reach high speeds and climb to high altitudes to chase ...

Between 2003 and 2004, Piercarlo Ciacchi, a former F-104 pilot currently flying with the Frecce Tricolori display team, produced a series of videos he took flying with the Starfighter from Grazzanise, ...

It quickly became obvious that it was not really what the U.S. Air Force (USAF) wanted, and it was quietly shunted to the sidelines. The first futuristic-looking F-104 Starfighter flew in early 1956 ...

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, ...