Ex RNoAF CF-104 airborne again!
 

Finally!

Congrats to all the people who made that happen!

Starfighter.no on Facebook video

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Awesome achievement with what must have been limited resources and money. Total respect for the Vikings. Would be great to see the same done for Black Mike.

Hello, is that the CAA.............






Brilliant job, well done the Norwegians

Brilliant job.

As for the UK, post-Shoreham, I doubt it!

Some better videos in this link: nrk.no

Like a homesick angel. Fan :mad: tastic

I watch this, it makes me smile!

A brilliant result from the whole team who put her back where she belongs!

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....

http://youtu.be/G6zzwiggFJs

From the backseat of the F16: https://youtu.be/TdMioGFmUqM

What a beautiful sound that J79 makes.

Nice job all round.

Some video shot from the F-16BM chase ship: CF-104 first flight from www.flynytt.no

Is it a 2 seater - would that not make it a TF-104 - only asking.............

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 Bodø in 1973-ish. 331 Sqn got their F-104s in 63)

Treble one
 

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

M609 - many thanks

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!

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!;)

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.