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From: parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu
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Subject: Re: Yet More F-104 Trivia
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.014457.7457@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 29 Aug 90 01:44:57 GMT
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From: parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu
In article <1990Aug23.014401.1193@cbnews.att.com>, phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:
> 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
> 
> Last I heard, he was was using it at airshows and attempts at low-level
> speed records.  Anyone seen him lately?

	I don't have a source to quote, but I seem to remember hearing
about 5 or 6 years ago that that gent had crashed his F-104 w/o being able
to eject.  I also seem to remember that he had owned the jet but not the
engine, and had to borrow an engine from the USAF to fly it.
	Anyone know when/if the Italians stopped manufacturing F-104s?
I know they were making them in a plant over ther long after the US stopped
prduction.

___ Gregg Parmentier ____ parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu ___

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