An Alitalia test pilot flew an Italian F-104 Starfighter 400 miles from Turin to Rome in 19 minutes and 30 seconds, landing ...

In May 2003, I had the opportunity to fly a mission on board an MB-339A of the locally based 609^ Squadriglia Collegamenti to take some air-to-air pictures of the F-104 Starfighter belonging to the ...

It's a lot closer to Christmas than it is to Halloween right now. But because it's Celebration Month here at autoevolution, we've decided to focus on something very, very spooky. On the face of it, ...

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was designed as a high-altitude interceptor, and in 1958 it held the world records for speed, altitude and climb at once. After the US Air Force declined the upgraded ...

2,580 F-104 were employed by the air forces of 15 countries in about 50 years. The F-104 represented a huge leap forward for all those countries that passed from old subsonic and “forgiving” jets to a ...

Designed as a supersonic superiority fighter, the F-104 Starfighter was lightning-fast. Development of the F-104 began in 1952, and the first XF-104 made its initial flight in 1954. As YF-104A testing ...

“I was the flight lead and intended to use as much deception as I could.” The Lockheed F-104 was the first operational fighter capable of sustaining speeds above Mach 2. Thanks to this ability the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., July 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The commercial space race has been defined by ever-larger rockets from ever-larger companies. But roughly 1,200 miles per hour above Florida's Space ...

Once a common sight in European skies, the F-104 Starfighter has been out of military service for well over a decade. The last major user was the Italian Air Force, and indeed the author’s last ...

Zoom climbs in the rocket-boosted NF-104 could top out at 120,000 feet in zero gravity. The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter looked more like a rocket than an airplane. Out in front was a sharply pointed ...

Starfighters Space sold shares Dec. 18, raising $22.1 million gross that the company says will support its pursuit of its StarLaunch suborbital space launch programs. “With this milestone completed, ...