When the first preproduction YF-104A (55-2961) arrived at the High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards in August 1956, it did not arrive as a combat aircraft. It came to prove that speed could be studied ...

West Germany bought 916 F-104 Starfighters and made the aircraft the backbone of its tactical air force, nuclear strike units ...

Once a common sight in European skies, the F-104 Starfighter has been out of military service for well over a decade. The last major user was the Italian Air Force, and indeed the author’s last ...

Starfighters Space, a Kennedy Space Center company that provides F-104s as flying testbeds for high-speed technologies, is planning an initial public offering of shares to try to raise $40 million ...

Forget the launch pad: A Space Coast company wants to accelerate its rare supersonic aircraft to twice the speed of sound, climb up to 45,000 feet, and fire wing-mounted rockets up into low-Earth ...