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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Combat Warplanes => Topic started by: Nico Braas on March 21, 2006, 09:59:58 PM

Title: Blunt-nose Starfighter
Post by: Nico Braas on March 21, 2006, 09:59:58 PM
Last Saturday I found this very peculiar photo of an F-104 Starfighter with a blunt nose. I have never seen such a variant and it could be a photo-montage. Any ideas about this version and what its purpose was??
Title: Re: Blunt-nose Starfighter
Post by: No.1 on March 21, 2006, 10:06:44 PM
Hope I will have some better info untill the end of this week.
Title: Re: Blunt-nose Starfighter
Post by: No.1 on March 25, 2006, 12:25:30 PM
I got some info from the USAF History services and this could be photograph of the F-104s acquired by NASA involved in experimentation with different radomes including a radome from a U-2.   The NASA number they believe is 820. I try to find some info from NASA officials and still wait for their reply.
 
USAF # F-104A-20-L0 56-790