The Museum at Speyer has several Starfighters, I'm sure thats where I first heard the German joke 'How do you get your own Starfighter?' to which to punchline was 'buy a plot of land and wait for one to crash on it' (it may be lost in either the translation or my telling! )
If you were painting inn the German livery, the view from above might have been useful - but just look at all those tanks hanging underneath!
The skeletal one has a couple of close ups - Lockhead had the advantage of being able to write their assembly instructions on the plane - in this case how to bolt the wings on!
Jon
Riding my BSA Bantam up a road in a valley on the North York's Moors one day in 1970, one of these passed me, lower down in the valley. I thought the BSA 175cc engine had disintegrated as the ground was shaking and the noise terrible as the German Pilot 'turned up the taps' and put it into afterburner. I swear he was laughing as he shot past me! I remember the Luftwaffe markings on the upper surfaces as I looked across, and down, at him.
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Riding my BSA Bantam up a road in a valley on the North York's Moors one day in 1970, one of these passed me, lower down in the valley. I thought the BSA 175cc engine had disintegrated as the ground was shaking and the noise terrible as the German Pilot 'turned up the taps' and put it into afterburner. I swear he was laughing as he shot past me! I remember the Luftwaffe markings on the upper surfaces as I looked across, and down, at him.