This is over at cape Canaveral. I looked it up a few years ago. They offer flights for like $18k or at least that was the price before Bidenflation. I have seen that F-104 fly around here before.
Ah yes...blaming the "overpriced" luxury of a fighter jet ride along, on the current, Democratic administration... Wonder what percentage of the general population, can afford to drop $18k on this particular bucket list item? LOL! Loosen the strap on your red hat, it's cutting off the oxygen to your brains, or lack thereof...
What a amazing airplane!! Thanks for this beautifull video. My dad did a backseat ride in it with danish air force in 1970s. He was so impress by the power he didn't have in his mirage 3C. Great respect, for clarence kelly Johnson the lockeed designer, for all the pilots who flew F104s, and for all the ingineers who keeped them flying.
@@vindicari This was not the fault of the F-104, it was the fault of the german government in its total inability to handle the new technology! My home country Germany bought 900 F-104 and after that Germany was broke, means: no money for covered parking, so the planes were parked in the weather the whole year. This was realy good (not) for the mechanik and the electronic. It was no money for the maintenance aviable, compulsory military service people did that, and when they were ready, they were replaced with new compulsory military service people, and the shit started over. AND (!) it was no money for training of the pilots in the sometimes poor weather in Germany, too little flights, too little training and thus no savety. The plane wanted to be flown and didn't forgive any mistakes! And the fuckin politicians? All what they did was to blame the other fraction for the problems, but not to work on it! With Johannes Steinhoff and his work on the problem the Starfighter crisis was over and the savety level was ascending to the same level like in other air forces!
@@vindicari ... the wrong aircraft for air too ground. Clarence Kelly designed the Starfighter as an interceptor. Not a fighter-bomber. The Luftwaffe should have split their buy and bought A-4 Skyhawks to drop bombs
@@vindicari apart from the reasons listed by Banana Joe for the problems in Germany, the fact was that they transformed an interceptor optimised for high speed / high altitude air to air combat in a fighter bomber to deliver its payload, conventional or nuclear, flying at high speed at tree level (talking of square bit in a round hole...), and there is to be said that ALL the planes from that period (above all the century series) were unforgiving.
A very unforgiving aircraft to fly. It wasn't called "The widow maker" for nuttin'. Not a plane to hot dog in. Keep her flying fast and level and she'll do you right. Almost impossible to recover in a stall. The second you lose lift, EJECT!
The flying " stove pipe " coke bottle design. Would love the opportunity to be privileged to fly in a Lockheed piece of American history but I'm quite sure my budget couldn't withstand the deficit.
F-104 a rocket ship with wings. one of the all time great jets of our country. i love this video. i wish it were longer. and the music is perfect. thank you guys. also is the gentleman who says GOOD GRIEF is that dick rutan?
Basically you took a plant on a 0 G plane ride? Don't get me wroung I believe that one day man will have to leave this planet and we will have to grow food while we travel in space so yes this is a good start.
My Dad, USAF (Ret.) Lt Col. Gary "Spud" Blake logged the second-most hours in the F-104, flying it for 18 of his 22 active duty years. He absolutely LOVED the Zipper. The 104 static display at Luke AFB has his name on this side of it. Also, R.I.P. Tom "Sharkbait" Delashaw.
Hello Tim. I think we may have communicated previously. My dad (Lt. Col Ed Gund) too was a Zipper IP, stationed at Luke AFB (1964-1970).. He was fortunate enough to fly a slew of USAF birds, and always maintained the '104 was his favorite, with the F-86 & A-4 tied for second place (he did 18 months Navy Exchange flying in the early 60's). It was a privilege to be an Air Force brat. Think of all the cool a/c we got to see in the course of a day. Dad began his AF career flying the Lockheed F-80 and retired flying the '104. His biggest regret? When his callsign was changed from "Bacardi" to "Bolero."
Loop Mit Looking back it was an interesting duty in Germany assisting our pilots by preparing their Navigation Dokuments. The starfighter F104G was an eyecatcher, unfortunately dangerous due to very often engine failures. I remember the deadly crash in Lechfeld of Feldwebel Thiedemann in 1967.
Not exactly true. The J79 engine hardly ever quitted. Very reliable engine. I flew 1600 hrs in the F104 and never experienced ANY engine problems. A collegue of mine had multiple birdhits (seagulls) during first take off in night flying. A large flock of birds was resting on the still warm runway. He managed to land the plane. Engine instruments indicated normal values (temp, rpm and oilpressure) but when the engine was checked the complete first stage of the 7 compressors was missing and consequently parts were all blown through the rest of the engine without causing the engine to quit.
