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Old 2nd Feb 2020, 20:12
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No problem
From the silhouette of the bomb display:
T-tail
Short wings sloping down
confirmed by searching
Emergency nozzle closure

F-104 Starfighter

When I followed a Management course I got some lessons on planning. The teacher/professor had been involved in a planning problem at Fokker building the Starfighters in license.
They could not get the aircraft from the pre-delivery flight test stations, so holding up delivery.
It seemed that after each test flight the amount of problems got bigger instead of smaller.

After analysis of the various problems they split the pre-flight stations in Radar repair and all other repair.
They first made an aircraft completely ready and did a test flight without radar. Then they went to a radar repair bay where they fixed the radar ASAP before something other broke down again. Time between failure of the radar was 10 hours after delivery I believe, but stand to be corrected.

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