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Lockheed F-104 Starfighter

10.7k SajabAerospace  6.8 years ago
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Here is my Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. Only a mini project, a spinoff from my NASA ER-2 research plane, since both planes, despite being so different from one another in both form and function, have quite similar fuselage components. Comes with a generic 'NASA style' paint job

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General Characteristics

  • Predecessor Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
  • Created On iOS
  • Wingspan 19.3ft (5.9m)
  • Length 44.0ft (13.4m)
  • Height 10.2ft (3.1m)
  • Empty Weight 4,036lbs (1,831kg)
  • Loaded Weight 6,676lbs (3,028kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 5.049
  • Wing Loading 47.8lbs/ft2 (233.5kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 139.6ft2 (13.0m2)
  • Drag Points 2464

Parts

  • Number of Parts 91
  • Control Surfaces 5
  • Performance Cost 387
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    Thanks for the upvote @hopotumon

    6.8 years ago
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    Thanks for the upvote too btw! @ChiChiWerx

    6.8 years ago
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    Yeah, I know about the F-104 and the U-2's similarities. That's why I decided to build this as well.

    6.8 years ago
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    29.9k ChiChiWerx

    Love it! Great build, fun to fly, like riding a rocket! That's hard to do with a '104 in SP.

    6.8 years ago
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    29.9k ChiChiWerx

    You, know, it's funny how you used your U-2 for this build. In reality, Clarence Kelly Johnson, the designer of both the F-104 and the U-2 used the F-104 as the starting point for the U-2; he swapped the wings out for the long wings and eventually changed the tail, but in the original drawings the U-2 is merely an F-104 with long wings!

    6.8 years ago
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    75.8k 2Papi2Chulo

    @SajabAerospace No problem

    6.8 years ago
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    Thanks for the upvote @PlanesAndThings2

    6.8 years ago
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    Haha, thanks, but your planes are also good! Thanks for the upvote too! Almost at gold now! @TheXDimension32

    6.8 years ago
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    75.8k 2Papi2Chulo

    Honestly I was thinking about building one of these today based on an rc plane I've been looking at, but you blew anything I would've done out of the water.

    6.8 years ago
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    39.0k phanps

    @SajabAerospace Anytime

    6.8 years ago
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    Thanks for the upvote @phanps

    6.8 years ago
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    I build my planes on both my Android smartphone and my iPad. I use the iPad to create the general structure, then send it to my phone for cosmetic and performance tweaking and enhancements with Fine Tuner and Overload, then send it back to my iPad for testing. Designs go back and forth a lot, and I only upload them when I'm happy with my work. The final design is submitted from the iPad usually, since that's where I do my final testing. @randomusername

    6.8 years ago
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    Thanks for the upvote! That was fast! @randomusername

    6.8 years ago