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   "Maybe the German pilots were incompetent or poorly trained."

   The predominant part of the German air force training takes place together with the American pilot training in the USA, Sheppard AFB.
   So if they were incompetent, maybe they learned a lot of it from American pilots :)

   There were 116 pilots killed by crashes of German air force F-104. 106 of them were German, 8 were Americans.
   A Number of the deaths happened because of the insufficient American catapult seat, which caused in low speed ejections to a fatal pilot-seat-detachment, so the pilots were slain by the seats.
   After switching to the British martin-baker seats, there were significant less deadly crashes of the 104.

   Not sure why there were so many crashes at all. There are some opinions, the reason why were the modification done to make the German F-104 version a all-weather fighter bomber. A job the F 104 was not designed for. The F 104 was primary designed as a interceptor.

   For sure a weak point was the single engine system of the 104, which leads in case of an engine failure to a total loss of the jet. As far as i can remember, since the F-104 there are no more single engine jets in the air force.

   Don't know nothing about the difference between Airbus and Boeing. But according to your economic understanding the airbus can't be soooooooooooooooooo bad, otherwise it wouldn't be successful.


   Best regards
   Thomas Rebhan


   With all due respect Thomas, have you heard of the F16?  Here is another one:  http://f135engine.com/ .

   The F35 is still so new that is isn't officially in service yet. The age of single engine fighters is long from over.

   Norm


   Single engine US attack/ fighters..examples.......
   A-4 Skyhawk, A-7 Corsair, F-8 Crusader, Century series , F-16 Falcon, coming F-35
   It is difficult to listen/read....to such derisive comments... as there are so many factors to consider when discussing accident rates.....

ATP Bill


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