She's So F*ck*ng Beautiful ..........

[Droombolus]

that when I see myself playing her it feels like I'm some old fart who scored himself a trophy wife ........  

[ilan]

Awesome.

[TBird1958]

Sweet!

[Chris P.]

The dog on the shirt or the bass?

[uwe]

Nice fin, but you should hold it with the neck downwards ..



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BkIFwYfGEg&feature=related

[Barklessdog]

G is for Germany!

[Highlander]

Nice...

Uwe diverted us and John fully derailed... so...

The "real" stuff baby the "real" stuff... F104G German display team...


In this (mostly Italian F104G's?) vid you can hear the distinct "howl" that monster of an engine made...


More howling...


Time for my medication...

[Chris P.]

Holland used to have some F104s too. I believe they all crashed. If I'm right it was a disaster to keep in the air?

[drbassman]

A poor workman blames his tools!

[uwe]

Except that the good workmen of the USAF flatly refused to fly the thing except in airshows and that it never saw a second of combat with US insignia. Bad weather flight characteristics were so appalling, they should have called it california Sunshine Cruiser rather than Starfighter!

[clankenstein]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkMMUOp3Y4k&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL1A8336E07DCDD854 -inevitable-

[Barklessdog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzNg23XVyEM&feature=related

What a great looking plane it was, the sidewinder rockets, the stubby little wings.

http://orexisofdeath.blogspot.com/2007/06/robert-calvert-hawkwind-uk-space-rock.html

Robert Newton Calvert (9 March 1945, Pretoria, South Africa - 14 August 1988) was the lead singer, poet and frontman of Hawkwind intermittently from 1972-1979, who went on to a less successful but intriguing separate career. He was believed to have suffered from bipolar disorder.

His other musical collaborators include Michael Moorcock, Brian Eno, Adrian Wagner and Amon Düül II.

He died of a heart attack in 1988 in Ramsgate, England.

This "All-Star" concept album/rock opera is the 1974 debut from the late, troubled Hawkwind singer. There's really nothing else quite like this album in all of rock music. Over 17 tracks of music and dialogue, it tells an investigative narrative about the "true events" behind the 1960's deaths of German Airforce pilots who were ordered to fly improperly-modified Lockheed fighter jets. Musical guests include Hawkwind, Lemmy, Brian Eno, Pink Fairies, Arthur Brown, Viv Stanshall and Jim Capaldi.

[Barklessdog]

Love the British ground crew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug7ytZhtmYo&feature=related

[uwe]

In bass speak it's a short scale airplane, its sporty handling invited pilots to do things they should better not do. It certainly wasn't a warhorse or -bird. If those things had been used in Nam, they wouldn't have been grounded most of the time and not stood a chance against the rugged and forgiving MIG 17.

Did any F-104 ever have aerial combat anywhere in the world? I doubt it. That plane was both engineering- and acquisitionwise a vanity project. Erich Hartmann, the no 1 German fighter ace of WW II, was against purchasing the Starfighter and lost his job for the post-war Luftwaffe over it (he resigned). And Franz Josef-Strauss, the corrupt Minister of Defense who pushed it through against the advice of nearly every pilot who had flown the darn thing, was on Lockheed's pay roll.

[OldManC]

The only one I ever saw is on a stick in a park about a block from where I grew up in Burbank. When I was a kid, Lockheed was still the biggest employer in town. I don't know if that mounting will invite any comments...

And for the record (to keep things on topic), I think that bass is much prettier than the plane.