The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is one of the most iconic aircraft of the Cold War. It was noted for being the first production aircraft to sustain Mach 2 speed, and it flew more than 5,000 sorties ...

When the first preproduction YF-104A (55-2961) arrived at the High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards in August 1956, it did not arrive as a combat aircraft. It came to prove that speed could be studied ...

The notion of a cockpit-less plane sounds bizarre now, but at the time, the periscope concept was seen as a viable idea. If one is familiar with the “Century Series” of American fighter aircraft ...

Once a common sight in European skies, the F-104 Starfighter has been out of military service for well over a decade. The last major user was the Italian Air Force, and indeed the author’s last ...

When Lockheed’s F-104 Starfighter first roared into the skies, it looked like a machine from another world. With razor-thin wings, blistering acceleration, and a climb rate that could outpace nearly ...

Media are invited to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 17 to view the flight of a privately operated F-104 jet aircraft on the first in a series of pathfinder test missions from the space shuttle ...