BOC: HW: OFF: Sights in Munich

[Eric Siegerman]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 09:41:15PM +0200, Henderson Keith wrote:
> F-104G!  "Uh, G?  Yeah, G!  You know, Herr Minister, G...uh, G for Germany!"

Of course, if they really had named it to appeal to the
customer's vanity, it would have been the F-104D :-)

> [...] there were 269 crashes and 110 pilot fatalities.

Out of how many planes total; did it say?

Canada had a bunch of CF-104's (a further-"improved" version of
the -G; go figure!).  The Royal Canadian Air Force's web site
gives this alarming statistic:

> About 110 CF-104/CF-104Ds were lost in accidents, out of 239
> delivered -- a loss rate of no less than 46 percent.

Yikes!

The last of them were decommissioned in 1986 -- and sold to
Turkey...


> "Anybody want to buy
> a starfighter?  Just buy a plot of ground...and wait."

Anybody want a Starfighter screensaver?
        http://home.planet.nl/~harrylui/screensaver/StarfighterScreenSaver.ZIP

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