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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Yet More F-104 Trivia
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Date: 28 Aug 90 04:29:35 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
>A decade or so ago, a civilian in (naturally) Southern California had
>managed to get hold of a flyable F-104...
>Last I heard, he was was using it at airshows and attempts at low-level
>speed records.  Anyone seen him lately?

This is *probably* Darryl Greenamyer.  It's somewhat of an exaggeration
to say that he got hold of a flyable F-104; he *built* a flyable F-104,
using his background as a Lockheed engineer and a lot of help, out of
a whole lot of pieces from military surplus.

Performance was pretty impressive, rather better than a stock F-104, as
he made improvements along the way.  He holds one of the low-level speed
records, set on his last test flight.  What he *really* wanted was the
absolute altitude record.  Unfortunately, at the end of said last test
flight, he had a landing-gear problem and ended up having to eject,
leaving the F-104 to crash (in the desert near Edwards).

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry