After graduating from the Aerospace Research Pilot School in September 1965, Duke stayed on as an instructor teaching control systems and flying in the F-101 Voodoo, F-104 Starfighter, and T-33 Shooting Star aircraft.

' Starfighter Pilot ' came just five years before 5xPlatinum selling album Final Straw and featured Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch on piano and backing vocals.

In 1976, it was publicly revealed that Lockheed had paid $ 22 million in bribes to foreign officials in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft including the F-104 Starfighter, the so-called " Deal of the Century ".

During the years 1953 to 1968, it was the home to 413, 427 and 434 Fighter Squadrons which flew F-86 Sabre jets, and 440 Squadron which flew CF-100 Canuck, then the CF-104 Starfighter.

He had a minor role in the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter as Louis ' friend but it was cut out.

The 1964 National Day parade was struck by tragedy when a low flying airforce F-104 Starfighter fighter aircraft struck a Broadcasting Corporation of China tower, causing the plane's fuel tank to fall and kill three people including a woman and her baby in front of the Central Weather Bureau building in downtown Taipei.

In 1982, there was Halloween III: Season of the Witch, The Last Starfighter in 1984 as Grig, Alex Rogan's copilot, navigator, and sidekick, The Whoopee Boys in 1986 as a conman, John Huston's The Dead in 1987, in RoboCop, and its sequel RoboCop 2.

Alex Rogan was taken to the Starfighter Command on Rylos, where he was later given a chip that was attached to the collar part of his shirt, so Alex could hear English from the Rylos race and other alien races.

* The film The Last Starfighter depended heavily on high polygon count ( for the time ) models with complex lighting effects, the rendering of which was made possible by the use of the X-MP.

The Last Starfighter was Preston's final film role.

The game was designed as a test to find those " with the gift "; Alex is expected to pilot an actual Starfighter spacecraft called the Gunstar.

After explaining to his friends and family where he was, Alex reveals that his services as a Starfighter are still needed by the Rylan Star League.

The Last Starfighter was a financial success, earning over $ 28 million on an estimated budget of $ 15 million.

Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half out of four stars, stating that while the actors were good, The Last Starfighter was " not a terrifically original movie ," but was nonetheless " well-made ".

A real The Last Starfighter arcade game by Atari, Inc. is promised in the end credits, but was never released.

A prototype exists for the Atari 2600 Last Starfighter game, which was in actuality a game already in development by Atari under the name Universe.

In 1990, an NES game titled " The Last Starfighter " was released, but it was actually a conversion of Uridium for Commodore 64, with modified sprites, title screen and soundtrack.

In February 2008, production company GPA Entertainment added " Starfighter-The sequel to the classic motion picture Last Starfighter " to its list of projects and two months later the project was reported to be " stuck in the pre-production phase ".

Because of concerns about being able to clear the tail, the first high-speed aircraft with a T-tail, the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, was at first fitted with a downward-firing ejector seat.

TRAC was also used as a front end on Digital Productions Cray renderer for films, including The Last Starfighter.

Solaris was at one point going to be based on The Last Starfighter, while the Atari 8-bit version of The Last Starfighter was renamed Star Raiders 2.

The development of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter revealed that the T171 Vulcan ( later redesignated M61 ) suffered problems with its linked ammunition, being prone to misfeed and presenting a foreign object damage ( FOD ) hazard with discarded links.

The main jets that entered the HAF fleet during this period were the F-104G Starfighter and later on, the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger ( in service 1969 – 1975 ) and the F-5 Freedom Fighter.

He was a project test pilot for the F-100, F-101 Voodoo, F-104 Starfighter and later, T-38 and F-5 test programs.

Some film scores featured include Patton, MacArthur, Air Force One, The Blue Max, Explorers ( all by Jerry Goldsmith ), The American President ( by Marc Shaiman ), Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story ( by Randy Edelman ), The Last Starfighter ( by Craig Safan ), Apollo 13 and The Rocketeer ( both by James Horner ), Always ( by John Williams ) and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers ( by Michael Kamen ).

Designs that depended solely on jet engines achieved more success with F-104 Starfighter ( initial A version ) and the English Electric Lightning.

Based on 26 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes ranks The Last Starfighter at a 73 % " fresh " rating.

A highly loaded wing on a F-104 Starfighter | Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. A very low wing loading on a flexible wing hang glider.

Lawrence was killed on December 8, 1967, in the crash of an F-104 Starfighter at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

His last role in a theatrical film was in The Last Starfighter ( 1984 ), in which he portrayed an interstellar con man / military recruiter called " Centauri "; he said that he based his approach to the character of Centauri on that which he had taken to Professor Harold Hill.

Other films based on video games included the 1983 films WarGames ( where Matthew Broderick plays Galaga at an arcade ), Nightmares, and Joysticks, the 1984 film The Last Starfighter, and the anime Super Mario Bros .: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen!

The Genie was cleared to be carried on the F-89 Scorpion, F-101B Voodoo, F-106 Delta Dart, and F-104 Starfighter in U. S. service.

Kincheloe was killed in the crash of an F-104 Starfighter on 26 July 1958 at Edwards AFB, California.

It was originally released in a double feature with The Last Starfighter on July 13, 1984 and then released separately on August 10, 1984.

Mindscape purchased a license to release a game based on the film The Last Starfighter.

Reformed as a part of the Canadian Forces in 1970 it operated as an operational training squadron on the CF-104 Starfighter at CFB Cold Lake.

In the late 1950s into the 1960s, the base transitioned into the F-100 Super Sabre, F-101B, F-102A and TF-102B, F-104 Starfighter, and the F-106A and B aircraft, training interceptor pilots for ADC assignments.

Exporting his talents, he designed the Hispano HA-200 jet trainer for Hispano Aviación in Spain in 1952 before eventually being allowed to return to aircraft manufacturing in Germany to licence-produce the Fiat G91 and then Lockheed F-104 Starfighter for the West German Luftwaffe.

An F-104A Starfighter interceptor from the 157th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, South Carolina Air National Guard, is loaded aboard a C-124 Globemaster II for shipment to Europe during the Berlin crisis, 1961.

* 1958 Clarence " Kelly " Johnson of Lockheed Skunk Works, and Gerhard Neumann and Neil Burgess of GE, for leadership in the development of the F-104 Starfighter ( 1958 ) and its J79 engine.

The Last Starfighter is one of the earliest films to make extensive use of computer graphics for its special effects.

In 1984, FASA, a noted sci-fi tabletop game maker, created a gaming system for The Last Starfighter.

Home versions of the game for the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit home computers were also developed, but never commercially released under the Last Starfighter name.

Notable among these is the F-104 Starfighter, initially designed as a high-performance day fighter and then adapted to the nuclear strike role for European use.

In the early 1970s, CARDE and Bristol decided to use the same propellant and engine design for a new 2. 75 inch rocket to equip the CF-104 Starfighter.

* April 2 – A Lockheed F-104 Starfighter piloted by Joe Ozier exceeds Mach 2 for the first time, becoming the first production fighter to do so.

* May 7 – U. S. Air Force Major Howard C. Johnson of the 83rd Fighter Interceptor Squadron set a new world record for altitude, flying a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter to 27, 813 meters ( 91, 249 feet ).

Compared to the fighters of a generation earlier, they had wing loadings about four times as high ; for instance the Supermarine Spitfire had a wing loading of and the Messerschmitt Bf 109 had the " very high " loading of, whereas the 1950s-era F-104 Starfighter had.

The first production aircraft with BLCS was the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, where after prolonged development problems, it proved to be enormously useful in compensating for the Starfighter's tiny wing surface.

The controversial merger maintained several existing organizations and created some new ones: In Europe, No. 1 Air Division, operated Canadair CF-104 Starfighter nuclear strike / attack and reconnaissance under NATO's 4 ATAF ; Air Defence Command: operated McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo interceptors, CIM-10 Bomarc missiles and the SAGE radar system within NORAD ; Air Transport Command: provided strategic airlift for the NATO and UN Peacekeeping missions ; and Training Command.

The most famous " Green Monster " was powered by an ex-F-104 Starfighter General Electric J79 jet engine, producing static thrust with four-stage afterburner, which Arfons purchased from a scrap dealer for $ 600 and rebuilt himself, over the objections of General Electric and the government, and despite all manuals for the engine being classified top secret.

Lowry also handled ground & armament training for the F-100 Super Sabre, F-101 Voodoo, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-104 Starfighter, F-105 Thunderchief, F-106 Delta Dart, F-4 Phantom II, F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-111 Aardvark, A-10 Thunderbolt II, B-52 Stratofortress, and B-1 Lancer bomber.

Bennett also took over for two actors who played different characters in the Star Wars series: as Jango Fett who was originally portrayed by actor Temuera Morrison and as Count Dooku who was originally played by Christopher Lee in Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter.

He designed inlet ducts for the F-104 Starfighter, the C-130 transport aircraft, and the F-90 fighter.