{"id":9429,"date":"2024-03-05T12:34:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T15:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.0.98\/?p=9429"},"modified":"2024-03-05T12:34:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T15:34:27","slug":"f-104-starfighter-a-70-anos-de-su-primer-vuelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aeroespacio.com.ar\/?p=9429","title":{"rendered":"F-104 Starfighter: a 70 a\u00f1os de su primer vuelo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aeroespacio.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/F104.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9430\" style=\"width:589px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>El pasado 4 de marzo, se cumplieron siete d\u00e9cadas del primer vuelo de una de las aeronaves m\u00e1s emblem\u00e1ticas: el F-104. Fue un caza-bombardero supers\u00f3nico, monomotor, desarrollado por Lockheed Martin para la United States Air Force (USAF) en la d\u00e9cada del 50. En ese entonces, la guerra entre las dos Coreas toc\u00f3 profundo en los Estados Unidos; los norteamericanos entraron en guerra, y el principal \u201ccaballo de guerra\u201d de su Fuerza A\u00e9rea era el F-86 Sabre, mientras que el de los norcoreanos, el MiG 15. La aeronave de dise\u00f1o sovi\u00e9tico caus\u00f3 estragos en las filas occidentales por lo que, en diciembre 1951, Clarence Johnson, ingeniero y jefe de la oficina de dise\u00f1o de Lockheed, se entrevist\u00f3 con los pilotos americanos para saber qu\u00e9 tipo de aeronave podr\u00eda abatir al MiG-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Los pilotos americanos solicitaron un caza peque\u00f1o, supers\u00f3nico y de alto rendimiento. Johnson, tras esto, parti\u00f3 r\u00e1pidamente a Estados Unidos para comenzar a dibujar los primeros bocetos. Para marzo de 1952, Lockheed Martin ya hab\u00eda seleccionado un primer dise\u00f1o que contaba con un fuselaje largo, de alas cortas, impulsado por un turborreactor General Electric J79 que le permitir\u00eda llegar a una velocidad m\u00e1xima de 2100 km\/h.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aeroespacio.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1024px-Lockheed_F-104A-15-LO_060928-F-1234S-008.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9432\" style=\"width:600px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A toda prisa, Lockheed comenz\u00f3 a trabajar en este dise\u00f1o y, tan solo dos a\u00f1os m\u00e1s tarde, el XF-104 Starfighter vol\u00f3 por primera vez en la Base A\u00e9rea Edwards, California. A pesar de los r\u00e1pidos \u00e9xitos, los accidentes comenzaron a aflorar. En sus primeras pruebas, esta aeronave present\u00f3 problemas con su tren de aterrizaje y estabilidad direccional, motivo por el cual una de ellas, que realizaba una pr\u00e1ctica de tiro, termin\u00f3 estrell\u00e1ndose. Esto motiv\u00f3 a la modificaci\u00f3n de la aeronave durante su etapa de preproducci\u00f3n: se alarg\u00f3 el fuselaje hasta los 16,6 m y se ajust\u00f3 el tren de aterrizaje, junto a las tomas de aire del motor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>En febrero de 1958, el F-104 se introdujo al servicio activo en la USAF, pero el inter\u00e9s de los norteamericanos, para ese a\u00f1o, hab\u00eda deca\u00eddo con respecto al Starfighter. Solamente se hab\u00edan construido 296 unidades. No obstante, pa\u00edses como Alemania Occidental, Canad\u00e1, Holanda, B\u00e9lgica e Italia solicitaron la cofabricaci\u00f3n, lo que permiti\u00f3 alcanzar la cifra de 2282 aeronaves construidas. Su principal operador fue la Luftwaffe con un total de 916 unidades entregadas entre 1960 y 1973, en lo que fue el comienzo de su rearme tras el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Con respecto a su dise\u00f1o y parte t\u00e9cnica, el F-104 presentaba un borde de ataque muy afilado en las alas. La cola era en forma de \u201cT\u201d, y el fuselaje fue construido en base al turborreactor. Por otra parte, su armamento estaba integrado por un ca\u00f1\u00f3n rotativo M61 Vulcan de 20 mm, lo que le otorgaba una cadencia de tiro de 6000 disparos por minuto. A su vez, pod\u00eda portar misiles SideWinder al contar con siete puntos de anclaje. Algunas versiones del F-104 tambi\u00e9n permit\u00edan el anclaje de bombas, cohetes e, incluso, bombas nucleares. Como el fuselaje estaba construido alrededor del motor, el espacio en su interior no era muy amplio. Esto conllev\u00f3 a que algunas versiones biplaza utilizaran el asiento de atr\u00e1s para alojar tanques suplementarios de combustible. A su vez, otras variantes, utilizadas con fines de reconocimiento, fueron desprovistas de su ca\u00f1\u00f3n rotativo para aprovechar ese compartimiento.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aeroespacio.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/F104C_Starfighter-1024x523.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9431\" style=\"width:679px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Esta aeronave fue dada de baja en el a\u00f1o 2004, Italia fue su \u00faltimo operador. El Starfighter fue una pieza clave en el rearme de las fuerzas a\u00e9reas de la OTAN, como tambi\u00e9n un avi\u00f3n \u00fanico<a><\/a> por su dise\u00f1o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuente y fotos: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El pasado 4 de marzo, se cumplieron siete d\u00e9cadas del primer vuelo de una de las aeronaves m\u00e1s emblem\u00e1ticas: el [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":9430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,1441],"tags":[10,310,915],"class_list":["post-9429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviacion-militar","category-industria-y-tecnologia","tag-aviacion-2","tag-aviacionmilitar-2","tag-lockheedmartin-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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