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From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: F-104 Ejection Seats and Other Trivia
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Date: 31 Aug 90 03:07:38 GMT
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From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Regarding the F-104's air combat maneuvering ability or lack thereof:
Apollo astronaut Michael Collins, in his autobiography "Carrying the Fire,"
mentions some F-104 time accrued during, or on the road to, astronaut 
training.  I quote from memory but with good confidence that it was
"built to go like hell, and so it did, preferably in a straight line."

--Joe
"Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"