Want to fly the F-104?

Somehow I think it would go something like Richard Hammond getting a drive in the Renault F1 car


If you don't have Top Gun type skills, I have to think this airplane is going to be flying you.
 
I have a pilot buddy while a USN Aviator flew a foreign exchange program with the Germany Navy flying F-104s. He said it was a blast. He is now a retired FedEx pilot with a nice Clipped Wing Cub.
 
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Sounds like its time to start a GoFundMe! :D
 
looks like fun. oh, to have a spare 20K or so....

Tim
 
N3368K said:
I have a pilot buddy while a USN Aviator flew a foreign exchange program with the Germany Navy flying F-104s. He said it was a blast. He is now a retired FedEx pilot with a nice Clipped Wing Cub.
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A very close friend of mine flew 104’s for the Germans. He loved that airplane. He said he would be climbing through 50k supersonic just a few minutes after brake release. Interestingly he also participated in an exchange program and retired from the military as a t-38 instructor with the USAF. He definitely has some interesting stories
 
Guy (former Marine pilot) in Montgomery AL back in the mid 80s had a 104 and some kind of British fighter. Northern Lights was the company name. Heard he had a contract with the Navy for spin training in it, don't know if that's true. Heard it departed the end of the runway taking off.

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/jetregistry/f104-104632.html
 
mscard88 said:
Guy (former Marine pilot) in Montgomery AL back in the mid 80s had a 104 and some kind of British fighter. Heard he had a contract with the Navy for spin training in it, don't know if that's true. Heard it departed the end of the runway taking off.
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Isn't departing the end of the runway on take off a good thing?
 
Didn't a German WWII ace get canned by the modern Luftwaffe over disagreement about how they were using F-104's?
 
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