FLY A STARFIGHTER

February 6, 2018

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is the highest performance, single-engine jet fighter ever made. The F-104 is powered by a single General Electric J79-GE-11A engine capable of generating in excess of 17,000 lbs of thrust and exceeding Mach 2. For perspective, that’s roughly equivalent to 36,000 horsepower, or more than the entire starting line-up at the Daytona 500.

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