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Early Access: In Defense of the Starfighter (Patreon)

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2023-10-11 20:06:29
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EARLY ACCESS! Enjoy a new video on the F-104 Starfighter. Didn't I release this like a week ago? Yes, but thankfully due to a eagle eyed viewer a hiccup in the data became obvious. Annoying for me, as I had thought I had checked it all but extremely gratifying to have a community of people who can pick up on these things. So here it is then, the final cut on the Starfighter.

The F-104 Starfighter has a poor reputation. Popularly known as the  "Widowmaker", let us have a look at the data showing crash and air crew  death numbers, to check if it is truly - data wise - an exceptional case  compared to its fellow Century Series aircraft.

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In Defense of the F-104 Starfighter (?)

Sign up to War Thunder for Free! Dominate the skies and smash some tankies: https://playwt.link/milaviationhistory The F-104 Starfighter has a poor reputation. Popularly known as the "Widowmaker", let us have a look at the data showing crash and air crew death numbers, to check if it is truly - data wise - an exceptional case compared to its fellow Century Series aircraft. - Check out my books - Ju 87 Stuka - http://stukabook.com STG-44 Assault Platoon - http://sturmzug.com German Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com/ Achtung Panzer? Zur Panzerwaffe der Wehrmacht - http://panzerkonferenz.de/ - Support - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/MilAvHistory Channel Memberships: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmpahmxWXajV0-tuMMzSzAg/join PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/MilAvHis - Museum - F-104 Starfighter at https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/flugwerft-schleissheim - Social Media - Twitter: https://twitter.com/MilAvHistory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/milaviationhistory/ - Sources - Aviation Safety Network (F-104 Starfighter). USAF SC, USAF Engine - Related Fighter/Attack Class A Flight Mishap Rates For Single Engine Aircraft as of 30 Jun 2021, USAF SC, Aviation Safety Division, USAF Statistical Digests from Years 1955 to 1980. - Timecodes - 00:00 - F-104 Starfighter 00:17 - The Crash Data 01:13 - Crashes and Fatalities 02:35 - Reliability: Accounting for Flight Hours 06:32 - War Thunder [Sponsor] 07:48 - Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan... 09:58 - International Flight Hours Call to Action 11:02 - Discussion on Sources 11:38 - What's your Opinion? - Audio - Music and Sfx from Epidemic Sound

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Frank C

Pretty cool F-104 CGI. Back in the day of Frank being very young, F-104 Starfighter was a fun plastic model to build. The German Air Force flew many of those, yes? J-79 is 'the' engine. Many buddies worked on J-79's in Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy. Did you know individual turbine blades get pitting on leading edge, and, these pit's are removed by actually people filing these smooth. No kidding! A sharp blade brings in more air.

Reichsbierminister

the video is listed as private on my side, is this correct?

Bill Lemmond

Hi, Chris, I'm finally catching up on some of your always-wonderful, thorougly-researched content. Research matters to me, a lot. I've heard some criicisms of the F-104. In text chat of a Twitch channel, MST3K, watching "The Starfighters," I menioned that the F-104 was one of very few 1950s and early 1960s single-engine jet fighters that my dad never flew. Another poster said that I probably would have lost my dad, otherwise. Well, Dad had a lotof hours in the F-86 and the F-100, too. He had to manually bail outof an F-86F. I'm wondering if, after allyour work, you'd enjoy relaxing and watching the Mystery Science Theater 3,000 episode, in which they joke their way through the movie "The Starfighters," Two words from the movie itself: "poopy suit," is what they call the sea survival uit, for flying across the Atlantic, for a European deployment. I'm guessing I'd have to find out how to buy and ship you a DVD that will play i you rregion, unless you own a region-free DVD (or Blu-Ray) player. Are you at all interested? I think you'd enjoy it.