Starfighter Swan Song

The following article was published in the December 2003 issue of Air Forces Monthly. For a backstage description of the flight that inspired this article please read this post: Airborne pickup (rejoining with an F-104). For air-to-air […]

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Airborne pickup (rejoining with an F-104)

There are basically 2 ways to rejoin a chasing aircraft with another aircraft of a different type: the interception and the so-called “airborne pickup”. Since I’m talking about dissimilar aircraft, I’m not considering the formation take-off, something that is  performed by two aircraft of […]