On the face of it, the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter may have looked like one good-looking and capable jet fighter.

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was one of the fastest jets of its time, but it came with a cost. Dubbed the "Flying Coffin", this aircraft had an alarmingly high crash rate. Was it a revolutionary ...

Starfighter was designed, in a time of increasing aircraft complexity and size, to be a straightforward, single-engine rocket ship, capable of intercepting and deterring during a period fraught with ...

Lockheed F-104 Starfighter Saved From the Scrapheap The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is one of the most iconic aircraft of the Cold War.

December 18, 2022 What It’s Like to Fly the 1,400 MPH Supersonic F-104 Starfighter Jet "It was like a missile with a man on it," says veteran pilot Evan Dick.

F-104 Starfighter Pilot Recalls His Life Intercepting Soviet Bombers During the Cold War.

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is one of the most iconic aircraft of the Cold War. It was noted for being the first production aircraft to sustain Mach 2 speed, and it flew more than 5,000 sorties ...

The Palm Springs Air Museum is an aviation paradise, with rare inside access to a B-17 bomber, an F-4 Phantom, an immaculate P-51 and other amazing planes.

A renovated F-104 Starfighter — a Vietnam-era supersonic interceptor aircraft — will be dedicated to three former F-104 fighter pilots during a private ceremony on Friday and during a public ...

Once a common sight in European skies, the F-104 Starfighter has been out of military service for well over a decade. The last major user was the Italian Air Force, and indeed the author’s last ...

The aircraft was prepared for the anniversary of the arrival in Tokyo. Even though the F-104 Starfighter was retired by the Italian Air Force in 2005 (last operational flight on Oct. 31, 2004 ...

The F-104 Starfighter was built for national militaries to fly, not airline pilots. Every second he’s up there he’s burning money faster than the airplane is sucking fuel.