 The fuselage and wing combination provided low drag except at high angle of attack (alpha), at which point induced drag became very high.The F-104 had good acceleration, rate of climb, and top speed, but its sustained turn performance was poor.A "clean" (no external weapons or fuel tanks) F-104 could sustain a 7-g turn below 5,000 feet with full afterburner, but given the aircraft's prodigious fuel consumption at that altitude and relatively small fuel capacity, such a maneuver would dramatically reduce its time on station.