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In West German service, the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was so accident-prone, with 116 pilots killed and 292 out of 916 aircraft lost, that it became the subject of a British concept album, 'Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters', in 1978. What went so wrong for the Starfighter in Germany?

by /u/EnclavedMicrostate in /r/AskHistorians

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