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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Canadair CF-104 Starfighter CL-1200 Lancer and X-27 Lockheed NF-104A Lockheed XF-104 Starfighter Lockheed U-2 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration,...
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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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Aviation portal Lockheed F-104 Starfighter Related development Lockheed XF-104 Lockheed NF-104A Canadair CF-104 Aeritalia F-104S CL-1200 Lancer and X-27 Related...
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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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Aviation portal Century Series Related development Lockheed NF-104A Canadair CF-104 Aeritalia F-104S Lockheed CL-1200 Lancer and X-27 Aircraft of comparable...
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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...
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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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Starfighter 56-801 Lockheed NC-141A Starlifter 61-2779 Lockheed NF-104A Starfighter 56-756 Lockheed NF-104A Starfighter 56-790 Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird...
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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...
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N104RB Red Baron (category Lockheed F-104 Starfighter)
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...
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aircraft. Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-8 (1962) (USSR), Jet fighter prototype. Lockheed NF-104A (1963) (USA), Modified F-104 Starfighter used for training astronauts...
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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...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Lockheed Constellation)
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...
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3 April 1959, p. 393. Landis, Tony (24 November 2021). "Flashback: Lockheed NF-104A Aerospace Trainer". United States Air Force Material Command. "Conceptual...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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F-106) F-103 – Republic F-104 Starfighter – Lockheed XF-104 Starfighter – Lockheed NF-104A Starfighter – Lockheed F-105 Thunderchief – Republic F-106 Thunderscreech...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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List of aircraft (Li–Lz) (section Lockheed)
Star Lockheed F-90 Lockheed F-94 Starfire Lockheed F-97 Starfire Lockheed F-104 Starfighter Lockheed NF-104A Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk Lockheed FM-2 Lockheed...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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