#f-104a

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A NASA F-104A Starfighter on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards AFB - July 9, 1957

(NASA Photo)

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F-104G-63-134243-58TTW-BEALE-AUG82 by Michel Klaveren

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There is an odd about of detail in this paragraph. I don’t recall them ever actually stating in the show what kind of plane Max flew in the Air Force or what kind of weapons it was equipped with. Am I actually lead to believe that the show actually depicted cartoon planes and weapons that were accurate enough to be identified? That’s rare for a children’s cartoon.

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Lockheed F-104A on the ramp at the NASA Flight Research Center - 1962

This Starfighter is carrying an Air Launched Sounding Rocket on it's centerline station. The ALSOR was a suborbital vehicle released from aircraft to study the upper atmosphere.

(NASA Photo)

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Starfighters circa 1960

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TF-104G-63-8462-58TTW-1980 by Michel Klaveren Via Flickr: GERMAN OWNED

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F-104D-57-1326-MASDC-1974 by Michel Klaveren

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Lockheed F-104A Starfighter 56-0774 (62) by Wing attack Plan R Via Flickr: F-104A-15-LO. C.N. 183-1062. Withdrawn from USAF service to Republic of China AF as 4210, then to Royal Jordanian AF as 904. To Pakistan during 1971 India-Pakistan war. Crashed July 16, 1974. Photo Credit's: Lockheed photo taken at Palmdale, CA, (likely 1956).