Starfighters Launches At Florida’s Kennedy Space Center

American businessman John Rost has become the first to complete a new FAA-approved F-104 flight training program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The adventurer, pilot and CEO of Fiesta Insurance completed four training flights in the Mach 2+ Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, the same supersonic plane used to prepare Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts for space travel. His ground school and flight training was completed at NASA’s Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), providing an opportunity to use the same runway the Space Shuttle returned to after coming back from its space missions. Continue reading: http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=6f4e0126-6acd-44c1-b1c2-e82fa1e43a5e

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