F104

joseyclosey · Post by **joseyclosey** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:09 am

Some great black and white images of the F104 in Luftwaffe service.

http://www.klassiker-der-luftfahrt.de/g ... 3#3-488079

Post by **Niner Delta** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:32 pm

Kelly Johnson just put the smallest wings on the biggest engine to make this the first Mach-2 hot rod in the sky.
Just make sure you keep the engine running, it would glide like a brick.........

Aughnanure · Post by **Aughnanure** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 7:08 pm

I see that it has an Upward Ejection seat; did some 'planes have Downward ones?

Post by **Niner Delta** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:24 pm

The early versions of this F-104 had downward ejection seats, but it killed too many pilots during a low
altitude ejection, so they changed to upward.
The B-52 had ejection seats for the navigator and bombardier that were ejected down. Others were
B-47, RB-47, XB-52, RB-66, XF-104, F-104 all had downward-firing ejection seats.
And there may be more.

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