The Lockheed NF-104A is an American mixed-power, high-performance, supersonic aerospace trainer that served as a low-cost astronaut training vehicle for...

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This is a list of known Lockheed F-104 Starfighter survivors. Please see the Canadair CF-104 Starfighter, Lockheed NF-104A and Aeritalia F-104S pages for...

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8 km (120,800 ft) on December 6, 1963, by Major Robert W. Smith in a Lockheed NF-104A mixed power (turbojet and rocket engine) aircraft. The highest altitude...

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fighter. The climactic flight of Yeager in a Lockheed NF-104A was originally to be made with a modified Lockheed F-104 Starfighter but ultimately, Wilmore...

aircraft designs and conduct research in different flight regimes. An NF-104A fitted with an additional rocket engine was regularly used in zoom-climb...

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The List of Lockheed F-104 Starfighter operators lists the countries and their air force units that operated the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. Belgium operated...

Eglin Air Force Base. In a swap with NASA, he obtained the nose of a Lockheed NF-104A, with its reaction controls. The all-important J79-GE-10 engine was...

aircraft. Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-8 (1962) (USSR), Jet fighter prototype. Lockheed NF-104A (1963) (USA), Modified F-104 Starfighter used for training astronauts...

engines for research and development projects like the NF-104A. North American F-86F(R) Lockheed NF-104A Data from Astronautix : AR2-3 and Aircraft engines...

flying accident during a test flight in a modified rocket-boosted Lockheed NF-104A Starfighter was featured in The Right Stuff motion picture. The aircraft...

3 April 1959, p. 393. Landis, Tony (24 November 2021). "Flashback: Lockheed NF-104A Aerospace Trainer". United States Air Force Material Command. "Conceptual...

were trained. There he learned how to control aircraft, such as the Lockheed NF-104A, at altitudes of up to 100,000 feet (30,000 m). In applying to be part...

the move. Further factors, such as the Lockheed bribery scandals to compel overseas nations to order the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, also served to undermine...

Deatrick's tenure at the school, students received the long-awaited Lockheed NF-104A—a rocket-powered variant of the F-104 intended to inexpensively train...

where the air density is lower. During zoom climb operations of the Lockheed NF-104A the jet engine was shut down on climbing through 85,000 ft (26,000 m)...

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Eglin Air Force Base. In a swap with NASA, he obtained the nose of a Lockheed NF-104A, with its reaction controls. The all-important J79-GE-10 engine was...

civilians were lost. Only small pieces of wreckage were found. 15 June A Lockheed NF-104A Starfighter, 56-0756, c/n 183-1044, assigned to Aerospace Research...

Chuck Yeager out of Edwards Air Force Base, California, zoom climbs Lockheed NF-104A Starfighter, AF Ser. No. 56-0762, modified with rocket engine in tail...

program 1 First rocket-powered aircraft, part of Opel-RAK program. Lockheed NF-104A USA CTOL Trainer 1963 3 Rocket and jet engines. Martin Marietta X-24A...

Machat was selected to restore a painting by Douglas Ettridge of an Lockheed NF-104A at the Air Force Test Pilot School. Machat was awarded the 11th Annual...

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Retrieved 2024-01-01. "Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star". National Museum of the United States Air Force™. Retrieved 2024-01-01. "Lockheed P-80A 'Shooting Star'...

York City". Red Arrow was inspired by the North American X-15 and Lockheed NF-104A. The filming model, designed by effects assistant Mike Trim, incorporated...

27, 2007. Retrieved January 9, 2010. Jenkins, Landis & Miller 2003, p. 9. "NF-16D VISTA becomes X-62A". Edwards Air Force Base. July 30, 2021. Retrieved...

at the base utilizing an NF-101B Voodoo, beginning in January 1963, and completed by August 1963. QB-47E Stratojets and QF-104A Starfighters were operated...