Prefab model 1/48 F-104G Starfighter Heller 30520

Lockheed F-104 Starfighter - American supersonic interceptor and fighter-bomber. The F-104 is the fruit of the US experience in the Korean War, where most air victories were achieved with a single surprise strike. This, in turn, meant that the new USAAF fighter should, first of all, be fast and have a high rate of climb. It is also a reflection of the "missile plane with a man on board" concept, which was also active in the Soviet and British aviation in the second half of the 1950s and early 1960s. The flight of the prototype created by Clarence "Kelly" Johnson "took place on February 7, 1954, and entry into line units began in 1958. The production aircraft was equipped with a General Electric J79 turbojet engine with thin trapezoidal wings and an R21G / H radar. The F-104 was produced in several modifications. The main ones are the F-104A fighter and the F-104C fighter-bomber. Further versions were mainly made for export. The F-104G with a more powerful J79-GE-11 engine and improved avionics went to Germany, the CF-104 is a licensed version of the F-104G, but with a J79-OEL-7 engine produced in Canada, the F-104S is an Italian-made aircraft with engine J79-GE-19. Finally, the F-104J was built for the Japanese Air Force with the J79-IHI-11A engine at the Mitsubishi factories. The aircraft intended for training test pilots was the NF-104 Rocket Starfighter. The F-104 was an aircraft that was incredibly difficult to control and made "inexorable" mistakes. He suffered many disasters - only in the Canadian Air Force, 110 of 238 F-104 aircraft crashed! Technical characteristics (F-104G version): Maximum speed: 2137 km / h, rate of climb: max. 254 m / s, maximum ceiling 27,400 m, maximum range 2,920 km, armament: fixed - one 20-mm six-barrel M61A-1 gun, suspended - up to 1,814 kg of cargo.

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