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The Missile With a Woman In It, The Story of Jacqueline Cochran and the F-104 Starfighter

In 1963 and '64, aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran set a series of supersonic speed records that not only made her the fastest woman in the world, but the fastest person in the world up to that time.
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37 pilots lost: Canada's F-104 fleet suffered 46% attrition

The F-104 Starfighter was widely adopted across NATO, built under license in Belgium and the Netherlands, and was used by ...