As we continue the Boneyard Files series, which showcases some of the retired aircraft resting at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, in the late 1960s, today’s story features the ...

Once a common sight in European skies, the F-104 Starfighter has been out of military service for well over a decade. The last major user was the Italian Air Force, and indeed the author’s last ...

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was one of the fastest jets of its time, but it came with a cost. Dubbed the "Flying Coffin", this aircraft had an alarmingly high crash rate. Was it a revolutionary ...

Enables real-world flight testing of Blackstar’s reusable hypersonic “SpaceDrone” using Starfighters’ F-104 aircraft Starfighters Space, Inc. (“Starfighters” or the “Company”) (NYSE American: FJET), ...

The cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Aug. 3, 1970, issue features a NASA Flight Research Center YF-12 over the Mojave desert prior to landing at Edwards AFB, California, following an ...

Starfighters Space is developing its supersonic aircraft fleet for a range of commercial space and research missions. Credit: Starfighters Space TAMPA, Fla. — Starfighters Space, which is developing F ...

Media are invited to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 17 to view the flight of a privately operated F-104 jet aircraft on the first in a series of pathfinder test missions from the space shuttle ...

Starfighters Space Inc. (FJET) is a pretty interesting prospect in the panorama of space-related stocks. They have 7 Cold War-era aircraft (F-104) that are capable of reaching Mach 2 speed and, ...

The thesis is straightforward and increasingly visible across DoD budget documents and procurement actions: U.S. hypersonic weapons, vehicles, and propulsion systems are advancing through development ...

This multi-mission program is based on a Technical Interchange Agreement (TIA) focused on integrating Blackstar’s SpaceDrone vehicle with Starfighters’ F-104 aircraft platform; a key step in advancing ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A Department of Defense procurement pattern that began with NASA's first new wind tunnel build in over four decades, broadened through ...