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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: US Fighter Designations
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.032248.26381@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 15 Aug 90 03:22:48 GMT
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
In article <1990Aug12.214544.2818@cbnews.att.com> rdh@sli.com (Robert D. Houk) writes:
>
F104: Starfighter, Lockheed.  Thank You again, Kelly Johnson.  Known
as the "missile with the man in it"  While never achieving
>   ...


How good a dogfighter was the F-104? The wing area is a 
tad small, but the airplane was supposedly pretty light.
Could it turn with other fighters? Or was it simply a bom-
ber interceptor? Any comments?