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Help the Estrella Warbirds Museum Preserve a NASA F-104G Starfighter

November 27, 2017 Editor 1

Roughly a dozen Lockheed F-104 Starfighters have served with NASA, and the Estrella Warbirds Museum in Paso Robles, California is lucky enough to have one of them on loan for display. Their Starfighter is TF-104G 61-3064. […]

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F-104 for the Palm Springs Air Museum Open Cockpit

August 13, 2014 WarbirdsNews 2

This Saturday, from 1 – 3 PM, aviation enthusiasts will have the opportunity to sit behind the controls of an F-104 Starfighter at the The Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California. This Starfighter is a recent […]

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Happy Birthday to the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter

March 4, 2014 Editor 20

Exactly sixty years ago today, the very first Lockheed Starfighter took to the skies over Edwards Air Force Base with legendary test pilot, Tony LeVier at the controls. Technically, it was not the first flight […]

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Alberta Aviation Museum Unveils Their Canadair CF-104 Starfighter Restoration

August 20, 2013 WarbirdsNews 1

Fittingly for the fastest plane ever fielded by the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Alberta Aviation Museum of Edmonton completed the restoration of their Canadair CF-104 Starfighter in what seems like record time, with the […]

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F-104 Starfighter Veterans on the Ongena Touch-Roll-Touch Maneuver

August 14, 2013 WarbirdsNews 19

You’ve probably seen this video before, Legendary Belgian Air Force Silvers Aerobatic Team member, William “Bill” Ongena performing a touch-roll-touch in a Lockheed F-104G Starfighter, a plane that was infamously difficult to control at lower […]

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Air vs. Land: The Long History of Races Between Aircraft and Sports Vehicles

July 11, 2013 WarbirdsNews 2

This article was inspired by a recent stunt organized by FortyOneSix.com ahead of this weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, where a Range Rover Sport on occasion of its unveiling went head-to-head against a Spitfire TR […]

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Lockheed Skunk Works Celebrates its 70th Anniversary

June 24, 2013 WarbirdsNews 3

By Lockheed Martin‘s count, this year marks the 70th anniversary of its secretive yet famous Skunk Works division, though some credibly argue that its genesis began with the 1938 development of the XP-38 that led […]

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Alberta Aviation Museum CF104 Starfighter Restoration Progressing

June 8, 2013 WarbirdsNews 0

In an update on the Alberta Aviation Museum‘s recently acquired Canadair CF-104 Starfighter that we’ve been following, the plane has been undergoing restoration and the fuselage has been pulled on its own wheels with a […]

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Starfighter Lands At Pacific Aviation Museum in Pearl Harbor

May 16, 2013 WarbirdsNews 0

Lockheed F-104A Starfighter, Serial No. 56-817, arrived at Pacific Aviation Museum in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii last Thursday, joining the Museum’s impressive and ever-expanding collection of warbird aircraft. The Starfighter, which is on long-term loan from […]

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Yanks Air Museum Takes Delivery of F-104 Starfighter

May 9, 2013 WarbirdsNews 1

Planes often have to be shipped from the other side of the earth to join a collection. Imagine how exciting it must have been for the Yanks Air Museum of Chino, California to locate an […]

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Samaritan’s Purse Douglas DC-8 Attending Oshkosh 2021

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While this news is a little old, we thought our readers would enjoy hearing details about the recent addition to the National Naval Aviation Museum. In the year of COVID-19, air show crowds around the […]

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