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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #225 on: April 22, 2022, 10:32:21 AM »
Drew this years ago.

A bit of Nord 1500 Griffon going on there  :smiley:
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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #226 on: April 22, 2022, 01:31:08 PM »
Look up the Lockheed CL-1000 for a Starfighter with a different look.

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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #227 on: June 06, 2022, 01:30:16 AM »
Iranian anyone:



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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #228 on: June 08, 2022, 08:09:45 PM »
Iranian anyone:

Were those forward fuselage hardpoints actually used for the carriage of bombs?

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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #229 on: June 09, 2022, 02:42:13 AM »




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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #230 on: June 09, 2022, 07:05:18 AM »
Need takeoff speed of 300+ mph to get off ground with that load !
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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #231 on: June 09, 2022, 11:15:01 AM »
Target better be at the end of the runway too!

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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #232 on: June 10, 2022, 01:59:26 AM »
It obviously wouldn't fly with everything loaded like that.  what I was trying to show though was that it was possible to fit bombs on the fuselage pylons.
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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #233 on: June 10, 2022, 07:02:58 AM »
Yeah that’s just a show off photo with every bomb and missile they could find. However, it does make the wings seem to angle downwards more than usual! :o  ;)

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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #234 on: June 12, 2022, 01:43:37 PM »
Iranian anyone:
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Nice!  :smiley:

With Sea Eagles, in this scheme?

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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #235 on: July 01, 2022, 03:29:08 AM »


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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #236 on: July 03, 2022, 08:42:29 AM »
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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #237 on: July 04, 2022, 01:02:47 AM »
 :smiley:
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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #238 on: July 17, 2022, 04:17:07 AM »
WOA! 8)

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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #239 on: November 16, 2022, 11:35:03 AM »
Don't remember if I mentioned this earlier, but how about a F-104J-Kai, equivalent to a F-104ASA but with Japanese radar and, depending on timeframe, AAM-1 and AAM-2 missiles or AAM-3 and AAM-4 missiles - in each case, the first is a Sidewinder replacement and the second is a Sparrow or AMRAAM replacememt.

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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #240 on: November 17, 2022, 01:25:05 AM »
Interesting concept
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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #241 on: January 27, 2023, 03:34:42 AM »
What if the German Re-unification went the other way and we ended up with West German aircraft in East German schemes:




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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #242 on: January 27, 2023, 07:48:19 AM »
What if the German Re-unification went the other way and we ended up with West German aircraft in East German schemes:


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I always thought that if the DDR had taken the BRDs offer of a bail out we might have ended up with the 2 Germanys in a close defence alliance after a change of government in the east.

I love the F-104s, but they might have initially used F-4F (ICE) Phantoms, and then moved up to operating Typhoons like Austria in an integrated system

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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #243 on: March 14, 2023, 01:39:02 PM »
Low tail plane Starfighter


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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #244 on: March 15, 2023, 01:47:04 AM »
Interesting
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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #245 on: March 15, 2023, 06:18:49 AM »
Now that's an intriguing proposition...
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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #246 on: March 15, 2023, 06:29:21 AM »
Lockheed CL-1200 Lancer aka X-27 . . .   ;)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_CL-1200_Lancer


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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #247 on: March 16, 2023, 07:51:02 AM »
Oh, the Lancer...I have so many ideas for kits!!
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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #248 on: March 20, 2023, 03:20:59 AM »
Just a cool photo:

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Re: F-104 Starfighter Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #249 on: March 21, 2023, 06:51:02 AM »
Sharkmouth looks really good on the 104! 8)

Loving the camo'ed missile rails, too.  :-*
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