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- I UNBOX and review the F-104 Starfighter G version from 21st Century Toys in 1:18 scale. This plane was a pre-made/assembled model. SUBSCRIBE TO SEE MORE!
I just came across a huge collection of 1:18 scale NEW IN BOX 21st century toys, Elite Force, Merit Int/JSI planes and MORE! I will be posting more Unboxing and Assembly videos on this account soon. Some examples of what I have are F-14, Hellcat, Stuka (various models), Corsair (various models), TBF Avenger, P-47 (various models), Bf-109 (Various models), Me-109 (various models), FW-190, P-51 (Various models), P-51D Mustang, P-40 (various models) , A6M2 Zero, Dauntless, ME-262, MiG-15bis and much more!!
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Hi, is this for sale?
Did it come with a latter?
Boot straps are for ejection sequence. Feet are pulled back so the pilots boots would clear the aircraft automatically.
Some history - The Marineflieger of the West German Navy received 168 F/RF-104G Starfighters for operation in two wings of two squadrons each: MFG-1 in operation 1963-1981 and MFG-2 in operation 1965-1986. The two wings were assigned to defend the Baltic and North Sea approaches, and the F-104Gs initially could carry a 'line-of-sight' Nord AS-30 anti-ship missile on two underwing pylons. This was eventually replaced by the much superior 'fire-and-forget' MBB AS-34 Kormoran missile. MFG-2's squadron of RF-104Gs had a fairing located in the lower front fuselage that enclosed photo-recon cameras, and were later upgraded with the addition of a long-range oblique-mounted camera in the port side of the forward fuselage. The two wings were also required to defend their area of operations, so their Starfighters were capable of carrying two Sidewinders on an under-fuselage launcher to allow for wingtip fuel tanks for extended overwater operation. This is correct on the model, however they did not install the refueling probe, nor did the Luftwaffe on their Starfighters.
Nice and big "widowmaker" from 21st Century Toys but there are three flaws. The refuling tube was only used in USAF-service, the rocket rack under the fuselage was not flown by the Luftwaffe(German Air Force) or Bundesmarine(German Navy) and the ejector seat in the F-104G was changed to a Martin Baker MK GQ7. Greetings from Germany.
Yeager was flying the NF-104A, which is quite different from the original F-104. The NF-104A had longer wings, Hydrogen Peroxide RCS thrusters in the nose, and a rocket engine at the base of the vertical stabilizer.
3:49 I think these yellow things are part of the ejection seat, they pull back the legs if the pilot ejects so that he doesn't hit his legs on something
Mid-air refueling probe was used only on USAF Starfighter versions.
Those are leading edge slats on the front of the wings. During takeoff and landing, they’re extended to give the wings greater surface area to handle the slower speeds associated with those parts of the flight.
I'm surprised someone who collects model airplanes don't know about that. It's basic aviation stuff.
Bought my JU 87 fron 21st Century Toys somewhere around 2004 for 79 Euros. It´s still hanging right above my computer-desk since then.
Whish I´d bought more of those awesome models when they were still available for a reasonable price.
the yellow things on the back of the shoes would attach to two cables under the ejection seat so that if you would ejected from the cockpit your legs wouldn't slam into the instruments above the rudder pedals.
the sr71 also had the same thing
15:30 those are slats, they improve lift on takeoff and landing and during low speed maneuvering
They could be leading edge flaps...
@@timsgta You're absolutely right.
I got LE flaps and slats mixed up again
@@clubtcb they call then slats on some commercial planes though...
The things on the feet of the pilot attached to the ejection seat. Once the ejection set is activated the attachment points on the heels of the pilot pull the feet back in order from the feet to clear the canopy.
The “spurs” lock into the ejection seat frame to secure the feet during ejection.
I really liked the 1/18 Starfighter release, but it didn't sell well, I believe, as interest was going down the toilet... I reckon PC's, handhelds and Consoles where the death nell and flight sims the last rusty nail.
Quality Control at 21C was also getting dodgy at that time - that would explain why my Starfighter ( Smoke II- Vietnam scheme), came in a Marineflieger box.
id love to own one!
Hard plastic for display...vinyl (rubber) for play.
Forward Wing Slats for added lift on take off.
Imagine this thing in a dogfight against that massive F-14 you have
My wings took that personally
F104 was never meant to be a dogfighter, just an interceptor
@@gufo_tave I can dream, ok?
Those forward flaps are leading edge slats, they enable higher angles of attack, fly at slower speeds, or take off / land in shorter distances.
Got this one, too. As well as the FW-190. Be careful with the landing gear.
Looks like the parachute can be installed on the back of the seat.
It's powered by the General Electric J79-MTU-J1K, it has the MASAAR Band I Radar with both BVR and ACM modes, it has a 20mm M61A1 Vulcan Rotary Cannon with 750 rounds which it can run through at 6000 Rounds a minute, and 116 pilots died due to crashed cause of lack of Pilot Training
It makes me wonder how big of a house you have lol
Things on the pilots boots are called spurs by the pilots,they click into things on the floor of the plane for the ejection seat,it pulls there legs in close to the seat just before ejection.
The leading edges are slats to increase the camber of the wing thereby making landings more stable at slower speeds. I own all the Starfighters from 21st Century. You can thank Obama for making a lot of businesses go out if business. I own a huge collection of 1/32, 1/18 and 1/48 scale 21st Century models. I bought them when the distributors were liquidating them. Practically giving them away many years back. Also you can thank WalMart for running that business into the ground!
Fantastic F-104
Nice review,i have the Nam version (Smokey) . The other vesion made that's not shown on the Box is the Canadian Tiger Stripe version.
German air force's roundel is beautiful. I love this plane.
Muy Bonito el caza. Esta guapísimo. Muchas gracias por enseñarnos lo. Muy buen video y un gran trabajo. Un saludo y un abrazo muy grande. Cuídense.
Die F 104 ist eine sehr schöne Maschine, dass Flugzeugmodell sieht toll in der Deutschen Bemalung aus.
Viele Grüße aus good old Germany
Bin schon ewig auf der Suche nach dieser Ausführung. Vietnam Tarnung und USAF lackierung gibt's viele, aber die hier, bis jetzt nichts. Mein Onkel flog den witwenmacher, wäre ein schönes Geschenk für für ihn.
Looks awesome I want this and the dauntless
Good Review :) this is My favorite channel 👍
Yes, of course it called 'Widowmaker'. Not just for the wings, the speed too. And there is one another fact that the Lockheed Martin make the wing shorter for just 'supersonic' feature
It is interesting to note that Erich Hartmann the highest scoring ace in history nearly resigned his commission as a general of the cold war Luftwaffe over this aircraft. He knew it was unsafe and struggled to keep the German government and military from adopting it. He knew it was going to kill pilots. Ironically his predictions came true as 29 Luftwaffe pilots died in this death trap.
The Spanish Air Force received 21 F104G, flew them between 1965-1972 and never lost any...
The reasons so many F-104s were lost actually has to do with the very bad maintenance practices of the Luftwaffe, and the inexperience of the pilots. Also, the German Air Force tried to use the Starfighter as a fighter-bomber (a role it was not suited to, as evident by how many the US lost in Vietnam to crashes)
Interesting, because the Luftwaffe lost F-84s, flown prior to the Starfighter, at an even higher rate than the F-104. One factor, in Germany, was pilots being held personally responsible for damage caused by errors, so the Luftwaffe didn't want to dig too deeply into crashes/accidents, to avoid assigning blame to the pilot. "Sorry, Frau Schmidt, your husband is dead, and here's a bill for the damages caused by the crash."
GREAT F-104 STARFIGHTER
The ‘stirrups’ on the back of the pilots flying boots lock into the ejector seat should the pilot need to eject to stop his legs flailing. I understand this was not automatic and the pilot had to lock them by kicking his boots into place first before pulling the handle. This was explained to me by a USAF Starfighter pilot.
really cool video as always man. they also made a Canadian version of this one which ive added to my collection.
These kits had such a unique collectability, and the eBay prices indicate that . Large scale modeling is popular now, however the variety offered when these came out would have made an attractive collection I'm not sure how to ask this, it is a moot point, put can you share a little more history on these kits. What year did they come out, what country manufactured them, any idea on why they went out of business, do you know if there is any chance they could come back - the molds must still exist . Your reviews are always great. Thanks for driving us aviation enthusiast insane :-) :-)
Nice video!!!!
That's an awesome plain
I regret not having bought these models back then.....Ich bereue es sehr, diese Modelle damals nicht gekauft zu haben 😔
Another great review, keep em coming.
Yeagers was an NF 104 with a rocket on top of the J79 engine.
A very nice model congratulations
A really good video series to tell more about this Plane is on the "Behind the Wings" series on youtube it will tell you about the things on the pilots feet.
yellow things on boots would clip into seat and pull feet back to clear instrument panel ejecting
Iv'e seen theprice of these on ebay!!Think there well worth it too'with the size of them!!And the detail!!!!!
A very infamous aircraft here in Germany - called “Witwenmacher” - widow-maker - as you mentioned before...they upgraded the ejectable seat later on as the previos version used to kill pilots...
The Spanish Airforce received 21 F104G, flew them between 1965-1972, and never lost any.
@@magomo5635 The german airforce overstressed the capability of the plane as they wanted to turn it into a fighter/bomber. If I remember correctly they were even launch pads for 45 degree take-off...I assume the payload or weapon arrangements were the problem - not the plane itself...😉
I'm guessing the nose needle came with a rubber version in case you had children around the plane (since it does say 5+).
nice
Those were the spurs they used to eject ,they wore them on the boots.
Cool glad to finally see it!
My favorite jet!, Quality content
It came with two tubes is because if you break one that you can replace it with the other one
Elite force has to make a 1:18 scale f15 eagle and f22 raptor
Have you ever thought about bringing tanks videos ?
Where do you buy these planes? They are awesome, lots of people have been wanting to know.
Ein sehr schönes Modell.Welcher Hersteller ist das wenn ich Mal fragen darf b.z.w wo kann man es erwerben?Amazon?
Hi , good video , can you do your display collection video , thanks
I can’t wait until I get a new plane
Looks amazing!!!
I think the F-104's T-tail didn't have flaps/move
Excelente 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The F-104 was called the "Flying Coffin" in the Turkish air force
The color scheme not on the box is the Canadian Tiger Scheme which I do have in my f-104 collection .
where can you order these? They looks awesome!!!
15:25 leading edge flaps to increase lift.
Cool video.
Couple of things I noticed, the 104 was flown by several countries including Germany and Japan. I believe the Germans who flew it were in the Luftwaffe but I'm not so sure about their navy.
General Yeager flew a specialized version of the Starfighter out of edwards. It had an additional rocket motor that was installed in the rear that would be activated when they were very high and fine very fast thereby giving them a boost to try and get them as high up and as close to space as possible. Once up in the upper limits of the atmosphere they had little hydrogen peroxide thrusters on the nose and about the airplane that the pilot could fire to keep the thing oriented as there was not enough free flowing air that high up for the wings to bite into. It was one of these zoom flights where he lost control and had to eject over the desert.
And those things on the bottom of the feet of the pilot you mentioned, I believe those we were referred to as spurs. I heard one veteran Starfighter pilot say that when they walk into a bar that the Spurs made a distinguishable click and everybody knew what kind of planes the pilots flew lol. But according to him those Spurs were something that enabled the pilot to lock in to the ejection seat in the case of an emergency and it would keep his legs from flailing around because let's face it, when you're flying in such high Mach numbers and you decided to leave the aircraft it could get pretty ugly lol.
Have two of these. Let me know where you get your 1/18 models. I live in northern VA.
Cool
good night , is there any site that sells these models ? your videos are great hugs friend 🇧🇷
How could I have that plane for myself
My legs have never been moved
Just wanted to say that I actually have the 'chute on my pilot in the cockpit... There is a way.
I think it has two pitot tubes because it can break,sooo if u dont want to break it usse the rubber one
Yess!
Love ur videos
I subscribed to your channel
I’m missing 2 things on the tail and I really want to find them
You guys can find these on ebay? Anywhere else by any chance?
Someone here who sells this Model for a reasonable price? My Uncle flew one of those beasts for the Bundeswehr, and i would realy love to get my hands onto one of these.
Il me semble pas que la version F 104 G utilise la sonde de ravitaillement en vol .
One simple question : how much Do you want for it???
Marinefliegergeschwader 2 Eggebeck 😉
Can you find one that’s the Red Baron
I can get models of the Bell X 1 or the North American X15 in this scale??
Wait until you have kids! Softgum for play, plastic for display. I wait for the sentence : Daddy ? Can we play plane crash with your "toys" ? Nooooo waaaaayyy !
i wish i had one :(
Where do you or how do you display these
where the good god hell are you getting these planes and why cant the rest of us get them?
What website do you buy these on?
Help! I have this same model/toy (I assembled it almost 20 yrs ago) and I'm packing to move out of state. I no longer have the directions and I need to disassemble it to safely pack in a box. I'm not sure if you just pull the aft section straight off. @ 7:15 it looks like an extension that just snaps straight in, but it doesn't seem to want to pull out and I don't want to force and break something. It looks like you removed it. Was it just enough force straight out? thanks
Yes, mine came with two pitot tubes - rubber one is probably for safety or less likely to break. Btw I wouldn't display it self-supported by the landing gear. It'll warp and eventually break, even just sitting there.
The Germans also called it manned rocket
Bro why don't u unbox a rc of this size
where can i get the Model for $ 39 ????
I had a chance years ago to buy the USAF version of this F-104 model at the Walmart at Harrison, Arkansas for $12.95 on sale. I decided it was just too big for my collection and put it back on the shelf.
15:30 that is slats. like flap
Where did you buy it?
Where do you get those
Where can I get this
Du hast einen kleinen Fehler an deinem Witwenmacher. Deutsche F - 104G, TF - 104G und RF - 104G hatten NIE einen Luftbetankungsstutzen.
How much was this?
Does anyone happen to know what material these models were made of?
Thanks, but just to say, nowadays it's impossible to find these kits on the market, so it'a a useless unboxing...
Price model ?-€