F-104 Heritage Flight

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When Dale "Snort" Snodgrass' F-86 had a problem and couldn't participate in the Heritage Flight with the F-15, the F-104 stepped in to fly dedication passes in its place. Flying the Starfighter are Rick "Comrade" Svetkoff and Dave "Shark" Waldrop.

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Channel: Autos & Vehicles
Uploaded: September 18, 2006 at 8:34 am
Author: SemperApollo

Length: 00:02:47
Rating: 4.74
Views: 35148

Tags: F-104 f104 Starfighter NAS Oceana airshow 2006 fighter jet afterburner J79

Video Comments:
thevegetarian (October 28, 2008 at 5:08 pm)
Great noise! Wish the would turn the music off though.
darcula08 (July 20, 2008 at 3:52 am)
the missile with a man in it! the f-104 starfighter is small but very nimble and verastile. Much respect to you!!!
TimeTimer3000 (July 9, 2008 at 8:15 am)
bad planes!
usm7j (June 11, 2008 at 2:18 am)
My father was a Zipper Instructor. Gawd, how he loved that plane. The only other one that could compete with his affection for the 104 was the F-86. I consider it a privilege to have grown up as an Air Force brat and was able to see so many aircraft up close. Love the howl of the J-79. Sounds like like some kind of primeval beast on the hunt.
aruju01 (June 8, 2008 at 8:21 am)
We work on the engines up here in Northern British Columbia. These planes actually run one of two different types, a GE built J79-11, or a lisenced Canadian Built Orenda J79OEL-7 They smoke due to the old style combustor cans. In the early 1980's a new "LoSmoke" combustor design was introduced, which really cleaned these engines up. If you want to see a J79-11 running up close, check out the "North American Eagle" videos. The first set of these videos has a -11A running on my cell.
chuck7520 (May 22, 2008 at 7:31 pm)
My dad was the GE Tec Rep for the F-104 program at Lockheed Palmdale in the early 1950's, he redesigned the intake (The intake moves) and the result is the distinctive whistle of the intake. And I was there with him when the 1st 2 F-104's were delivered to the Navy for hi-speed hi-altitude weapons testing at China Lake NOTC. They lost 9 pilots and 11 aircraft in the 2 year test program that was top secret at the time, now it's just a side note in history.
denmalski (May 21, 2008 at 10:20 pm)
looks like I'm correcting my correction, no production f-104 had downward firing seats. after a little research i found that the 104 was initially designed to have one (xf-104) but improvements in rocket propulsion eliminated the need to have it fire downward.
chug26 (May 18, 2008 at 9:05 pm)
i saw these guys preform yesterday at the andrews afb airshow nice flying i ahve it on video
e4e5d4 (May 7, 2008 at 8:30 pm)
damn, the f104 is one sexy fighter!
Cedrusdeodara (April 7, 2008 at 2:09 am)
My father flew over 1000 hours in the F104. He retired early from the USAF after seeing two other pilots die due to crashes in this bird, neither were due to operator error but plane malfunctions. One was lauched into the runway during takeoff (ejection was through the floor due to high tail wing), the other lost his cockpit airshield for no known reason and crashed.