The Lockheed F-104A Starfighter

Biograpy

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is a single-engine, supersonic interceptor aircraft which was extensively deployed as a fighter-bomber during the Cold War. Created as a day fighter by Lockheed as one of the Century Series of fighter aircraft for the United States Air Force (USAF), it was developed into an all-weather multirole aircraft in the early 1960s and produced by several other nations, seeing widespread service outside the United States.

After a series of interviews with Korean War fighter pilots in 1951 Kelly Johnson, then lead designer at Lockheed, opted to reverse the trend of ever-larger and more complex fighters and produce a simple, lightweight aircraft with maximum altitude and climb performance. On 4 March 1954, the Lockheed XF-104 took to the skies for the first time, and on 26 February 1958 the production fighter was activated by the USAF. Only a few months later it was pressed into action during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis when it was deployed as a deterrent to Chinese MiG-15s and MiG-17s. Problems with the General Electric J79 engine and a preference for fighters with longer ranges and heavier payloads meant its service with the USAF was short-lived, though it was reactivated for service during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and the Vietnam War, when it flew over 5,000 combat sorties.

Controls

• AG1: Afterburner OFF/ON
• AG2: Air brake ON/OFF
• AG3: NAV lights OFF/ON
• AG4: parachute Deploy/Drop
• AG5: Drop AIM-9Bs
  

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Flight instructions

• Takeoff

  1. Flaps: 50%
  2. Pitch up: 250km/h

• Landing

  1. Flaps: 100%
  2. Trottle: 35%
  3. Speed: 315-335km/h
  4. Touchdown speed: 285-315km/h
  5. Remember to flare
     

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Arrmmament

• 2X AIM-9Bs
• 1X 20mm M61A1 Vulcan 6-barreled Gatling cannon
  

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Notes

• To fly faster fly higher
• the aircraft speed was timed after an altitude of 10,000m
• The afterburner and the Nav lights are automatically on they must be manually de-activated
• 80% of the plane was made before the 1.11 update so alot will be outdated
  

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Features

• 90% blueprint accuracy
• semi-realistic performance
  

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