Excellent write up on this great Grumman aircraft not appreciated by the military brass (forget about the brainless bureaucrats ! ) Would have been a much different outcome for Grumman and the rest of the NATO nations that had gambled with the F-104, not to mention the lives of the pilots that lost their lives on this unforgiving aircraft. I like the F-104 just like any other airplane enthusiast but to expect this aircraft to do everything was the folly of the Europians. We did the very same thing with it in South East Asia by the way. Who knows, we all cannot be armchair generals but we try! God bless and hope we do right with our military in the future.
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