The early USAF F-104 struggled with engine and systems problems that led to grounding periods, fatal accidents, and a growing distrust of the aircraft’s reliability. Limits in range, external-store ...

Six of the US Air Force’s most iconic aircraft were featured in the 1983 film The Right Stuff—each of which played a role in advancing America’s exploration of space. What You Need to Know: The ...

The F-104 earns its reputation by climbing and accelerating like a missile, setting headline altitude and speed marks that few aircraft can touch. It covers zoom-climb record flights into the 90,000 ...

The restoration team has now begun work on one of the United States military's most important early combat fighters: the ...

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 ...

The U.S. got its first look, last week, at one of the world’s fastest jet fighters as the Air Force lifted the security ban on pictures of Lockheed’s lightweight F-104 Starfighter. Instead of sharply ...

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 ...