Ex RNoAF CF-104 airborne again!
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Ex RNoAF CF-104 airborne again!
Finally!
Congrats to all the people who made that happen!
Starfighter.no on Facebook video
Google translate article
Congrats to all the people who made that happen!
Starfighter.no on Facebook video
Google translate article
Last edited by M609; 28th Sep 2016 at 17:00.
tastic
Seems our Nordic cousins have less onerous versions of the CAA....Starfighter, Draken, Viggen.....??? Amongst others!
Of course due to DA limitations/conditions imposed by the CAA we probably won't see this magnificent beast in UK skies....
Of course due to DA limitations/conditions imposed by the CAA we probably won't see this magnificent beast in UK skies....
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Some video shot from the F-16BM chase ship: CF-104 first flight from www.flynytt.no
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CF-104D actually
Ex Royal Canadian Air Force frame like all the CFs we had back then. (They augmented F-104 already on the books, and replacing F-5s at 334 Sqn at Bodų in 1973-ish. 331 Sqn got their F-104s in 63)
Ex Royal Canadian Air Force frame like all the CFs we had back then. (They augmented F-104 already on the books, and replacing F-5s at 334 Sqn at Bodų in 1973-ish. 331 Sqn got their F-104s in 63)
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I work for a Scandinavian company and the reason that the CAA's of these states are Govened by states than base laws on common sense not how the lawyers can bend the law to make as much money as can.
People in these countries don't have to constantly look over their shoulders waiting for the lawyers to get at them as long as they act responsably
People in these countries don't have to constantly look over their shoulders waiting for the lawyers to get at them as long as they act responsably
Still a 'cool' aircraft (despite the widow-maker reputation). Watched the Luftwaffe ones visiting Bruggen as a kid and then watched some of the last Italian ones visitng Sigonella many years later. They look like the classic Ferrari of the fighter world
I watched 24 of them on an exercise survival scramble from Schleswig-Holstein; awesome noise, smoke, etc and that was just from the ones that made it airborne, let alone the several that aborted!
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You couldn't call the RNoAFs' 104s 'Widow makers'.
I think I'm right in saying that statistically they were the safest 104 operator.
Hardly lost any, if I remember rightly- or was it fewest accidents/ losses per flying hour?
Anyway, the opposite of the Germans!
I think I'm right in saying that statistically they were the safest 104 operator.
Hardly lost any, if I remember rightly- or was it fewest accidents/ losses per flying hour?
Anyway, the opposite of the Germans!
At the risk of starting something that's been done to death before. ..Not much worse loss rates than many jets of that era. The early Harriers and Lighting spring to mind. Not to mention Scimitar, Sea Vixen and a lot of American jets.
Back to thread.... Fantastic achievement from all concerned. Still one of my favourite jets, sadly I don't think we've got much chance of seeing it in the UK.
Back to thread.... Fantastic achievement from all concerned. Still one of my favourite jets, sadly I don't think we've got much chance of seeing it in the UK.