On 10/18/07, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can we talk about the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter? Please Bob? There's a > plane that is gorgeous. The B-58 Hustler gives me goosebumps too.
That was the most beautiful aircraft ever designed, IMHO. Okay, there's the Spitfire, but it's the most beautiful (and dangerous looking) jet was (and is) the Starfighter. I think I told this story to the list before, but when I was a kid I lived about a kilometer from the Canadair factory. Canadair, later sold to Bombardier for a song and a dance was the government owned aircraft factory that among other planes, built CF 104s in the 60's for both the Canadian and German airforces. I remember them flying (literally!) over my house, both taking off and landing (depending, obviously, on the wind). When those afterburners kicked in, they made one hell of a lot of noise! But it was cool noise to a 10 year old kid... ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
