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

[Richard Loken]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Albert Solway wrote:

> > 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.

> 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.

The Canadian CF-104 were part of the same NATO contract as the German craft
so they would have been F's if the German aircraft were F's.
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   Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS  
   Athabasca University
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