On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:24 AM, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> >> No. 6 is my favourite. I always thought that the F104 was a beautiful >> piece of machinery. > > I've always loved Starfighters, too. I always thought they were just > so cool and sleek looking - even if they had a propensity to fall from > the sky every so often. > > cheers, > frank
Note that's a CF-104 being flown by Starfighters in that shot. And there's nothing unsafe about the Starfighter, it was a superb high-altitude interceptor and was quite safe in that role. The problem was the crazy idea that the Canadians and Germans had of using the things as low-level strike platforms that caused most of the crashes. heck, the CF-104's were air-to-ground only (and actually, Nuke-only until 1972) having no air-to-air capability whatsoever. We shoulda bought F-105's instead. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
