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“Black Beauty” is one of the seven F-104s owned by the Starfighters Aerospace, based at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center used for research and development flights. For many avgeeks its display at Pratica di Mare Air Base was the first time they has seen and importantly heard a Starfighter!