Would the air force have any better off in Vietnam if they'd used the F-104 for air to air instead of the F-4?

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:07:44 GMT, Ed Rasimus
wrote:

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:51:48 GMT, Scott Ferrin
wrote:

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:32:54 GMT, Ed Rasimus
wrote:

Overall, the 104 performance in SEA was less than stellar.

Thanks. This month's Airpower/Wings sure talked the thing's
performance over Vietnam up. I'd read long ago that it didn't do all
that well over ther so I thought I'd come here for the lowdown :-)

Airpower usually is pretty well researched. Can't imagine a positive
review of F-104 SEA performance.

My mistake. It was "Combat Aircraft". I'd been reading them both and
got them mixed up. BTW Airpower has an article on the XF-103. Pretty
interesting.

For Scott Ferrin

Scott,

Ran across this additional information on f-104 deployment to SEA while
looking for something else.

http://web.tiscali.it/no-redirect-ti...ighter/Zip.htm

Tex Houston

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 07:19:51 -0700, "Tex Houston"
wrote:

For Scott Ferrin

Scott,

Ran across this additional information on f-104 deployment to SEA while
looking for something else.

http://web.tiscali.it/no-redirect-ti...ighter/Zip.htm

Tex Houston



Thanks for the link. It sounds like they could have been valuable but
circumstances conspired against them.