BOC: HW: OFF: Sights in Munich

[Steve Youles]

In 1985, when I was living in San Francisco, I interviewed for a job as a
PC technician with a local defence contractor.  I asked them what defence
contracts they had and they replied that their main one was a contract with
the RCAF to maintain their F104's, which were being used in a low-level
ground attack role!!!!!  Thoughts of Captain Lockheed came immediately to
mind, as I smiled non-commitally and started edging my way towards the door.

Incidentally, I also met (in 1980) a Pilot Officer who'd been based at an
RAF strike base in Germany, and who had in fact been kicked out for
drunkenness.  I mentioned Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters to him but he
already knew all about it.  It was apparently a favourite among RAF aircrew
in Germany at the time - I got the impression that they took it as being a
piss-take of their German opposite numbers and no more than that...

Steve

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On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:25:22 -0400, Eric Siegerman <erics at TELEPRES.COM>
wrote:

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>Canada had a bunch of CF-104's (a further-"improved" version of
>the -G; go figure!).  The Royal Canadian Air Force's web site
>gives this alarming statistic:
>
>> About 110 CF-104/CF-104Ds were lost in accidents, out of 239
>> delivered -- a loss rate of no less than 46 percent.
>
>Yikes!
>
>The last of them were decommissioned in 1986 -- and sold to
>Turkey...