F-104G 'The Vikings" Demo

[StormILM]

I flew this demo mostly from the VC but also rehearsed it multiple times with correlating external views with the intent of it being seen from an airshow spectator level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkMBd-OW7FQ

[xpelekis]

Very nice man ! This is a legendary aircraft & a favourite of mine also.
Nice video & way of flying the Starfighter. :encouragement:

[ZsoltB]

:applause:

Thank you!

Zsolt

[findus]

Really great video. Just a little hint: The F-104 was not able to retract the tailhook in flight. It was a one way option for barrier engagements ;-)

[StormILM]

Really great video. Just a little hint: The F-104 was not able to retract the tailhook in flight. It was a one way option for barrier engagements ;-)

I should have recalled that as most Air Force bird's tail hooks operate in that manner but in making the video, I manipulated the tail hook up/down switch for that dirty pass much as I do with my Naval models(having that function mapped on my HOTAS X55). Oh well, an oversight :banghead:

[RKinkor]

Nice vid, makes wish I still had my Alphasim one that I lost when they turned in to Virtavia.

[StormILM]

I flew this demo mostly from the VC but also rehearsed it multiple times with correlating external views with the intent of it being seen from an airshow spectator level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkMBd-OW7FQ

I re-uploaded the video with the slow flight fly-by sequence edited with tail hook up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JJ7_NiDm3A

(the first video has been deleted)

[findus]

No worries mate, it was just meant as i wrote it; as a little hint. It hasn´t impaired your really great video!

[StormILM]

That's one nice thing about movie maker type programs, if you save the original files then it is easy to go back and edit them as I did in this case.