As for the gaffe in nomenclature, you'll have to cut me some slack, flyboy...going to bed at 0200, I was restless, and tossed until 0400 when it finally broke throgh the fog I was having an insulin reaction - up until 0530 and out of bed at 0900..add to that bad hands and blurred vision, and dropping the "10" parts of the numbers was just another wrinkle of the day.
Had to wait unti my hubby woke from a nap to check, and I was correct.
You said: "Although since the F-104 did not have an internal weapons bay (It was armed with the M-61 Vulcan Gatling cannon, and sidewinder missiles)"-
and the F-104 WAS right - it was his sidewinder missile rack he lowered for the benefit of the Russian pilot.
Maggie,
I'm prepared to cut you as much slack as you need, anytime you need it.
BTW, that's "Wing Wiper" not "flyboy" I was non rated. (20-300 or so at that time :( ) R&D and procurement engineer, and later technical intelligence. But I've been an airplane freak ever since I can remember. I remember watching Air Force recruitment films at the state fair, over and over, when I was just barely old enough to be allowed to cross the street from the horse barns, and to be by myself. (Another time and place, I wouldn't allow a kid half again my age to be alone at the fair now, even though the fair is no bigger now than then, and it's in the same physical location, although a week later in the year).
It was even before your Alaska adventures. Let's see they had an Edsel on display in that same building.... hmm, I guess that would make it 1958 or '59 (Edsel was introduced in September of '57 but I kinda doubt they had one at the Nebraska fair that year and canceled in November of '59). I would have been two months shy of 9 or 10.