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 ...

On this day in aviation history, March 4, 1954, the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter took to the skies ... Fighter Sales currently ...

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter looked more like a rocket than an airplane. Out in front was a sharply pointed nose with a long pitot tube. The airplane’s straight, stubby wings were canted ...

A training model it may have been at heart ... there could really be no more appropriate name for such an aircraft than the F-104 Starfighter. It might sound like something that Darth Vader ...