http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160826-the-1950s-jet-launching-tiny-satellites?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook
Insert Last Starfighter quote here.
"What do we do, sir?!" "[bizzzzzzzzzzzz] We die."
NOT THAT ONE!
QuoteGerman pilots dubbed the Starfighter the 'Widow Maker' or 'Lawn Dart'. One widely known joke went: "How do you get your hands on a Starfighter? Buy a field – and wait."
Canadian pilots talked this way about the plane too. In a country the size of Canada and most of it frozen most of the time, the CF-104 was not of much use for home defense....
My Uncle was an airframe tech that worked on the CF-104 and CF-101's and he said that a lot of Canadian pilots were all to happy to see it go ! When he was stationed in Germany he said he lost a couple of colleagues to low-level accidents.