Century Series
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The Century Series is a popular name for a group of US fighter aircraft representing models designated between F-100 and F-106 which went into full production. They included the first successful super
Clockwise from bottom: F-104 Starfighter, F-100 Super Sabre, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-101 Voodoo, and F-105 Thunderchief
USAF "Thunderbirds" F-100D
McDonnell F-101B Voodoo
F-102 deploys braking parachute
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
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The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is an American single-engine, supersonic interceptor. Created as a day fighter by Lockheed as one of the "Century Series" of fighter aircraft for the United States Air F
Century Series
…Guard. Three later variants, the QF-100, QF-102, and QF-106, also continued in service, primarily as aerial target drones, until the late 1990s. The F-104G stayed in service with the Italian military until 2004. The NASA airborne science program maintains a group of F-104G in airworthy condition for use…
A former Royal Netherlands Air Force F-104G
A Royal Netherlands Air Force F-104G Starfighter in flight on 2 June 1963.
Lockheed F-104A
Detail of F-104G's GE J79 turbojet exhaust (red coloring added by Technik Museum Sinsheim, Germany)