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F-104 pictures from the Troupe Azzurra archive

In 2004 I wrote the texts of the only official book on the Starfighter published by the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF) to celebrate the retirement of the World famous aircraft, titled “F-104 – Storia di un Mito”. During the design phase I had the possibility to browse the enormous archive of the CPA in order to chose the pictures to be used in the book. In this page you can find some interesting pictures of the F-104 Starfighter taken by the “Troupe Azzurra” during the whole service life of the Spillone (as the aircraft was dubbed by the Italian pilots) until 2004. Even if this page contains hundreds pictures, they represent only a small part of the thousands that can be found in the CPA historical archive.

All pictures in this page courtesy Aeronautica Militare – “Troupe Azzurra”.

Gary Watson

When are you going to post the other 2,000+ pictures :)
Patrick “zip 104″ Janssen

Wow,

What a nice collection of zipper pictures !!!!
http://www.i-f-s.nl Harry Prins (International F-104 Society)

Great Photos David!!!!! Lot of history in there!!!
Especially the early shots…..Hope you find more!!
Regards
Harry
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http://www.starfighters.net Mike Robinson

David,

Incredible Pictures!!

We’d love to get our hands on some of these to put up in our hangar!

Bloke.
Umut POR

Beautiful pictures.
Good work.

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