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jordan clymer
Добавлен 24 окт 2011
Aviation junkie,pilot, and mechanic living in Cape Canaveral working on the only fleet of F104 Starfighters.
F104 Starfighter test flight 3-12-24 from Kennedy Space Center
F104 Starfighter test flight 3-12-24 from Kennedy Space Center
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Great video! I see the Black Beauty has still the markings from Italy on the vertical stabilizer. It looks really nice. I´ve built a model of it in 1/72.
Amazing 🤩
EN PUERTO RICO ESTUVIERON ESTOS AVIONES F-104 STARSFIGHTERS EN LOS AÑOS 70 AL 1975
Still amazed the F-104 can even fly. Its like a 12yr old on Kerbal Space Program removed the wings and then moved the canards rearward to see what would happen.
Grew up in a region where they made low flight combat practices. Very shocking. Sometimes they crashed into the forests or houses, even more shocking.
This is a cool plane with a lot of lore. But why does nasa choose to fly it still?
A long takeoff there, I hope you had a great test flight.
Habe sie als Kind über Deutschland beobachtet...konnte nie genug bekommen...Fantastisch!!!
The F104, an engine with a man on it!
Timeless jet. Never gets old!
Dutch flew them in/out at RAF Mildenhall when i was their in 74. Speed was it...
Very amazing flight.
how did you manage to get the ride?
Back in 1977 I used to work for a company known as Northwest Industries a division of CAE as a wiring harness assembler for the F104 Starfighters going to Baden Baden Germany. The start of my aviation career.
Appears to be very smooth inflight.
Dude, I am beyond jealous! Is Starfighters hiring??? A&P? Avionics?
My office roomnumber is F104. And although not allowed, i have a large photo of a F104 glued to the door 😂.
The last time i saw one operational was @ the Wings over Houston Airshow, ‘88/‘89, Ellington Field, in a hangar. Inquired and was told it belonged to a civilian/private owner. It flew a demo the next day as we were on our static display. Gorgeous & stunning a/c, its design bore the later SR71. They were still operational in the German AF into the ‘90’s and gradually replaced by the Tornado. To this day, one of my personal favorites, I admire the one still on static display @ Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, Tx.😊
As a kid, THIS was my favorite fighter jet ... could fly vertically, as fast as horizontally, IIRC! And man, was it COOL looking! Great video!!
General Electric J-79 turbojet engine goodness.
Sorry to be ignorant. But why are 104s still being used? What types of flights?
I love it. Bavarian Airforce 1977
We need more of this, please update 😂
Why isnt Piercarlo uploading anymore? We need more footage of the starfighters
You should make the print even smaller and only flash it for about 1 second, so to be sure, absolutely no one can read it.
The A and B models ejected downward. The procedure at low altitude was to roll inverted and then punch out. Yeah, right, like there's nothing else going on.
Corvette with wings!
Haha makes sense why I love my c5 soo much!
This Tf104g comes from Italy where i live, his base was 30 km from my home, i surely have seen it flying many many many times. Very impressive 20 years after her phasing out
What a beast when turned into the U-2 .
Boring. The captions you put at the top of the screen or some goddamn small that I had trouble reading them and you didn't leave them on there long enough for me to even get a third of it read. This video was a waste of my time
Where’s your 104 video?
V.A.M. a Cameri nel 1978/79. Vedere decollare quelli del 53° Stormo del Comandante Mainini, specialmente di sera e da pochi metri, é un qualcosa che non si puó spiegare con parole.
Say hello to PierCarlo ! :D
Thank you so much for that so sweeseeeet looked fun
Must be hard to stay subsonic 🚀
I prefer the previous livery.....
While in the USAF in 1969, I watched three F-104s do near vertical takeoffs while working on an aircraft on the flightline. It was incredible ! I was an F-4C crew chief and flew once in my aircraft. It was great, but the F-104 would have been the ultimate, it's pure speed :) Saw a lot of German F-104s but nothing beats the polished aluminum look. Such a beautiful aircraft
Just so cool.
Classics never die
That wonderful J-79!!! 🤗
In the early days many pilots died in this plane. Same as the F16. The giant push to go fast and intercept was a dangerous game early on.
Broke lots of records when it was introduced, fantastic aircraft!
What a beautiful bird and a perfect greaser landing by the pilot. I'll always remember reading (Check Yeager biography - a must read book by thje way) about Gen Chuck Yeager's flight in the NF-104A which ended in a loss of control and a crash on December 10 1963 at Edwards AFB. Thank you for sharing the experience free of narration & music.
Missile with a man in it!
Is this a F104B or DJ?
Not a star fighter unless it can go into space
The J-79 howl ..
Got to hit that target on the EPR gage
curious as to why you hold your hands up, blocking the camera view..... on purpose ????
No just never been in the jet trying to keep my hands free of the controls while Pier is flying
well you can definitely see the Earth is flat
lol really?
Gorgeous aircraft! There are no publisher's notes. Was the boundary layer control testing done to ensure this feature was operating as it was originally designed? Or was this done as a test for either a modification or evan an aerodynamic study applicable to a new aircraft in design (e.g. NGAD, F/A-XX)? Would be nice have the F-104 contribute to fighters in design more than 60 years later!
It was just a test to assure everything was operating within the parameters required. This aircraft was disassembled and shipped to Italy for their 100th year anniversary of their Air Force. Once reassembled back in the states I was fortunate enough to ride in the back for the functional check flight.
@@jordanclymer12 Whoa! Thanks for the reply. Sending it to Italy required a LOT of effort. It's a nice gesture to an ally to do this. It's also particularly germane since Italy was one of the NATO members who purchased the F-104. Wikipedia says Italy retired the F-104 from their Air Force in 2004. Wiki also states.... "It was the first production aircraft to achieve Mach 2, and the first aircraft to reach an altitude of 100,000 ft (30,000 m) after taking off under its own power. The Starfighter established world records for airspeed, altitude, and time-to-climb in 1958, becoming the first aircraft to hold all three simultaneously." That's one impressive set of credentials!
Yes it was a ton of work, our aircraft that are currently flying were purchased from the Italian government so it was cool to have the airplane flying back where it was originally operated!