INSTANT FLIGHT.—This Lockheed-California Company’s F104 Starfighter is taking off from Edwards Air Force base, California, without using a runway. It uses a solid-propellant rocket motor to leave from a launching pad. The fighter has a maximum speed of more than 1500 miles an hour.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31018, 25 March 1966, Page 13
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44INSTANT FLIGHT.—This Lockheed-California Company’s F104 Starfighter is taking off from Edwards Air Force base, California, without using a runway. It uses a solid-propellant rocket motor to leave from a launching pad. The fighter has a maximum speed of more than 1500 miles an hour. Press, Volume CV, Issue 31018, 25 March 1966, Page 13
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