In Defense of the F-104

======================== SUPPORT ME ON PATREON!   / fightertales   Hellion's Website and Patreon: https://www.ratsnest.me/ patreon.com/hellionmanor Discord:   / discord   =========================== Music Used: The Chronicler “On The Brink” Fighter Tales Vol. 1 album out now!    / on the brink: fighter tales soundtrack vol...   -Armory -Deep Strike -Interdiction -M.A.D. -On the Flight Deck Karl Casey Music =========================== REFERENCES: 1: Kocivar, Ben (October 6, 1964). "Collier Trophy". Look. Vol. 28, no. 20. p. 36. He calls his development plants 'skunk works'. There have been five of them – the first, an abandoned distillery. 2:https://www.916-starfighter.de/Joy%20.... 3:https://www.airvectors.net/avf104_2.h... 4: a Special Correspondent (17 January 1958), "First Things First: On Not seeing the Sales Trees for the Reorganization Woods.", Flight, vol. 73, no. 2556, p. 72, retrieved 17 April 2024 via internet archive 5:https://www.916-starfighter.de/GAF_cr... 6: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-sp... 7: "ANG Heritage: Missions, Wars and Operations." Archived 26 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine ang.af.mil. Retrieved: 17 April 2024. 8: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat... 9: https://www.key.aero/article/why-indi... 10: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/f-104... 11:"Lockheed's Defiance: A Right to Bribe?", Time magazine, August 18, 1975