Starfighter

[HiJack]

After 13 years of restoration one Norwegian Starfighter took its maiden flight today. :thumbup: First time in 33 years a Starfighter is on the wings in Norway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 28, 2016 by HiJack

[RhineHornet]

Fantastic achievement of the whole team. Followed the event on facebook. Great to see this beauty flying again and oh that sound!

[HiJack]

Yes. I'm hoping for a really good heritage flight next year with Spitfire, F-86, F-104, F-16 and F-35 :thumbup:

[Plagi_Arism]

I love that music. The noise of the engine. :music_whistling:

Thanks for the video :thumbup:

[Toxic]

what a beauty! :)

[Hansolo]

Outstanding achievemnt by the team :thumbup: Beautiful aircraft

 

A little more from YT;

 

Cheers

Hans

Edited September 29, 2016 by Hansolo

[QuiGon]

Nice to see a Startfighter up in the air again. Is it the only airworthy Starfighter in the world?

[drPhibes]

It's the only airworthy one in Europe, but there are a few flying in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfighters_Inc

 

Unfortunately, yesterday wasn't just a day of celebration for the small Norwegian warbird community. 2 L29s (out of only 10 registered jet warbirds in the country) were lost in a hangar fire. Only one of them was insured :(

[NeilWillis]

Great to see another restoration project culminate in an airworthy museum piece.

 

Now there's a Starfighter in Scandinavia, does this give Leatherneck an excuse to start development? I sincerely hope so!

 

Terrible blow hearing about the L29s however. I guess the remaining 8 just became much more precious.

[drPhibes]

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[Heli]

[tflash]

Fantastic achievement!!!!

[ebabil]

first picture at the beginning is horrible. almost no wing.

[javelina1]

great to see these warbirds being restored. thanks for the post!

[tflash]

That howling sound !

 

[EagleFox]

happy dying

[Svend_Dellepude]

happy dying

 

:lol:

[WinterH]

first picture at the beginning is horrible. almost no wing.

 

Well that's F-104 for you : almost no wing :D

 

It is the only aircraft I can't ever decide whether it looks ugly as hell or kinda cool.

[Plagi_Arism]

first picture at the beginning is horrible. almost no wing.

 

Yeah. That's why they called Starfighter. It flies like a rocket. Looks like a rocket. It does not need wing in the space. :D

[ebabil]

Well that's F-104 for you : almost no wing :D

 

It is the only aircraft I can't ever decide whether it looks ugly as hell or kinda cool.

 

with wingtip fuel tanks or whatever, it looks super sexy, especially form top or bottom.

without it, looks horribly ugly.

there are many of them in Turkey placed in various locations as memorial planes

 

 

hasegawa model:

 

[WinterH]

Contrarily, I think it looks quite worse with wingtip tanks, but that's just me.

 

Yeah, they are all around the place here in Turkey :D You don't see any other type as gateguards or park ornaments but, F-104 is a frequent sight in most cities.

 

Though, first photo you post is interesting in that it seem to have it's nozzle intact, almost all of the ones I've seen had their engine removed. At least Harbiye and Koç museum examples in İstanbul, as well the gateguard near Antalya airport all are that way.

[Automan]

I don't want to open a new F-104 lovers thread, so I'm posting this video here.

 

F-104, History of a Mith, produced by Aeronautica Militare for fifty years anniversary of the Starfighter

 

 

First italian pilot to evaluate it, said:

...seems like a really exceptional machine, there is one thing lacking hovewer: it doesn't give you time to think...