and Japanese air forces. The F-104 was the centerpiece of a significant bribery scandal in the 1960s, when the Starfighter's developer, Lockheed, was accused of paying out millions of dollars in ...

The F-104, as pilots like to say ... and one fan recently e-mailed him from Japan, on his way to see them at a show in Westover, Massachusetts. General Thomas Cutler, commander of the Selfridge ...

While the N-102 proved capable, the Air Force instead opted for the Lockheed submission, the CL-246—which went on to become the F-104 Starfighter. In the middle 20 th century, at the onset of ...