The third NF-104A (USAFÂ 56-0762) was delivered to the USAF on 1 November 1963, and was destroyed in a crash while being piloted by Chuck Yeager on 10 December 1963.
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I am almost 72 years old, when I was a young girl we could hear the sonic booms when he broke the sound barrier. Special memories of my childhood