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Starfighters are an English heavy metal band from the new wave of British heavy metal movement founded in Birmingham, England, in 1980. [1] They attracted a strong British cult following but were not able to translate this into any lasting success, producing just two full studio albums in the early 1980s.
During periods away from Hawkwind duties, Calvert worked on his solo career; his solo creative output included albums, stage plays, poetry, and a novel. His first solo album, Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters, was released in 1974. [3] The record is a concept album, an amalgam of music and theatre focused around the Lockheed bribery scandals.
"The Right Stuff" (extended version) – 8.07 "Ejection" (single version) – 3.47 "Catch A Falling Starfighter" (single version) – 3.00; Hawkwind has incorporated some of the songs in their live set through the years including "The Right Stuff", "Ejection", "The Widow Maker" and "The Song of the Gremlin" and they have also been recorded and included on several of their live albums and ...
The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5. Tucker, John (2006). Suzie Smiled... The New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Shropshire, UK: Independent Music Press. ISBN 978-0-9549704-7-5
The score for The Last Starfighter was composed and conducted by Craig Safan.In 1984, a soundtrack album was released on LP by CD by Southern Cross Records. [1]The Southern Cross album includes two songs written for the movie by Safan and Mark Mueller.
A number of standard production F-104 Starfighters were obtained (including F-104D two-seat versions) [3] and used by the ARPS to simulate the low lift/high drag glide approach path profiles of the X-15 and the projected X-20 Dyna-Soar program. These maneuvers were commenced at 12,000 ft (3,700 m) where the F-104 engine was throttled back to 80 ...
The last Starfighters in combat service, the F-104S-ASA/M was withdrawn in October 2004 (the last unit being 10° Gruppo/9° Stormo, Grazzanise), and temporarily replaced by F-16 Fighting Falcons, whilst awaiting delivery of Eurofighter Typhoons.
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is an American single-engine, supersonic interceptor which was extensively deployed as a fighter-bomber during the Cold War.Created as a day fighter by Lockheed as one of the "Century Series" of fighter aircraft for the United States Air Force (USAF), it was developed into an all-weather multirole aircraft in the early 1960s and produced by several other nations ...