Fish is happiest in flight and doesn't know what he'd - "Herman's Germ" can hang on a cloud. ***** than a tennis cout. Similar projects are being developed by Convair and Bell. Firsh's other baby, which he flies alter nately with Tony Levier, Lockheed's chief test pilot, is a revolutionary lightweight jet fighter, the F-104. It is still on the Air Force secret list but is reliably reported to look more like a rocket than an airplane. Its speed is reputedly surpassed only by such experimental rocket ships as the Bell X-1A, which went over 1,620 mph. If true, this makes the F-104 the fastest jet in the world. One observer, after a look at its stubby wings, promptly dubbed the F-104 the "Super-sonic Vagrant" because it "gets around so fast with no visible means of support." August 8, 1955.