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From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Yet More F-104 Trivia
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Date: 23 Aug 90 01:44:01 GMT
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From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
In article <1990Aug18.182728.24742@cbnews.att.com> shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes:
>Everyone talks about the F-104 in the past tense, but we're still
>flying two of them in research projects.  Don't say the F-104 _had_,
>say it _has_ or you'll make me nervous. :-)  They're also still being
>flown by a number of foreign air forces.
>
A decade or so ago, a civilian in (naturally) Southern California had
managed to get hold of a flyable F-104.  (This is difficult  --  the
services go to considerable effort to see that combat aircraft being
scrapped will never fly again.  The old fighter in your playground with
kids crawling over it most likely has a big chunk cut out of its main
strut.)

Last I heard, he was was using it at airshows and attempts at low-level
speed records.  Anyone seen him lately?
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