“Mix 153, Grosseto Tower, line up and wait runway 03”. It is Nov. 27, 2000, I’m strapped in the backseat of the TF-104G-M MM54554 “4-48” of the 20th Gruppo (Squadron) piloted by Capt. Andrea Truppo, ...

Few months before the retirement from the active service, the Aeronautica Militare organized an airshow to bid farewell to the iconic “manned missile”. The F-104 wrote the final chapter of its ...

It quickly became obvious that it was not really what the U.S. Air Force (USAF) wanted, and it was quietly shunted to the sidelines. The first futuristic-looking F-104 Starfighter flew in early 1956 ...

First of all, we learn that the F/RF-104G (the single-seater fighter and recon version of the previously-released TF-104 G) wil be released by SimSkunkWorks “in a couple of days.” While the developer ...