[R-390] G-8 Summit Security...

[Albert Solway]

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> I think those were the F-104F models, heavily modified by the Germans. That
> is why they lost the lawsuit against Lockheed because so many of them
> crashed.
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> We flew our helicopters pretty low in Germany, but those Starfighter's flew
> UNDER us all the time. There were too many near-misses to remember them all.
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The "C" in the the CF-104 is the Canadian designator for the F-104. Don't know
which model we had. The CF-104 was known in the RCAF as the Widow-Maker.

Al VE2TAS