Attention: This aircraft features an incredibly advanced and realistic flight model. If you can't land it, take comfort that I can barely land it using my keyboard, and I've flown it more than anyone probably ever will. I literally had to invent a technology to make this thing work right.

USAF

USAF - Unarmed

Act. 1 - Arrestor hook (carrier landings not recommended, but possible)
Act. 2 - Air brakes
Act. 3 - Braking parachute
Act. 4 - Drop underwing tanks
Act. 5 - Drop tip tanks
Act. 6 - secondary night nav lights (supposed to blink opposite of the main ones)
Act. 7 - primary nav lights
VTOL down - Flaps and the first BCL system ever implemented in SP.

The F-104G Starfighter was an export model of its predecessor, the F-104C. Many improvements were made, including a totally revised tail. However, some US fighter wings retained F-104Gs in order to train Luftwaffe pilots. The F-104G served in nearly every NATO aligned country, including Spain, West Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Canada, and even Japan. This one was made for the default paint challenge. I snatched the AIM-9B Sidewinder missiles from closeairsupport. As both my first platinum build and my first fully PC build, I spent nearly a week perfecting the design and flight performance (and inventing the first ever functional blown flaps system in SP) with ChiChiWerx. I hope it is pleasing both aesthetically and in terms of speed and agility. Enjoy!