Another that inspired the imagination, and almost killed Yeager, NF-104A. Big brass ones to fly that bird. Must have been a helluva ride.
There was a very valid reason why they called it "The Widow Maker!"
Speaking with people who flew them the F-104 was very good inside the curve, but monumentally unforgiving. The thing with the NF-104 was that the rocket would push you to altitudes where the aerodynamic surfaces were ineffective, essentially you were flying a missile controlled by reaction jets. Hopefully.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
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