Gorgeous! I love the sun reflecting off the metal, and the way you can see the atmosphere getting thinner as the sky goes from pale blue to deep blue. (I don't think the un-modified F-104 ever made it up to the "black sky" part of the stratosphere, but I know they got them up to at least 80,000 feet flying a zoom profile, so pretty close!)
That is simply beautiful! Great work! I always wondered how well the F-104 handled with those tiny wings? O.o They had a stall speed of 200mph, so it couldn't have been that good, but then again it wasn't a very large fighter.
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