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2 unusual facts about Lockheed NF-104A


Lockheed NF-104A

One of the aircraft was destroyed in an accident while being flown by Chuck Yeager.

The third NF-104A (USAF 56-0762) was delivered to the USAF on 1 November 1963, and was destroyed in a crash while being piloted by Chuck Yeager on 10 December 1963.


Alphabet of Akiba ben Joseph

It is directly based upon, if not coeval with, Shab. 104a, according to which the school-children in the time of Joshua ben Levi (the beginning of the 3rd century) were taught in such mnemonic forms which at the same time suggested moral lessons.

General Electric J79

:Aeritalia F-104S; also retrofitted to F-104A's of the 319th FIS.


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