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    The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star was the first jet fighter used operationally by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II. Designed...
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    The Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star (or T-Bird) is an American subsonic jet trainer. It was produced by Lockheed and made its first flight in 1948. The T-33...
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    entered service in May 1957. Developed from the Lockheed T-33 (itself derived from the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star), it was powered by one Allison J33 engine...
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    would instead go on to select the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star as its first operational jet fighter. Although no P-59s entered combat, the aircraft paved...
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  • reconnaissance. Lockheed P-38 Lightning (unofficial) Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star Lockheed XF-90 Lockheed F-104 Starfighter Lockheed U-2 Lockheed X-26 Frigate...
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  • Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, the United States Air Force's first operational jet fighter Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star, trainer jet Lockheed F-94 Starfire...
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    portal Canada portal Related development Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star Lockheed T2V SeaStar Boeing Skyfox Related lists List of military...
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    the -33 Convair XF-92 Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star Lockheed F-94A / F-94B Starfire Lockheed T2V SeaStar North American AJ Savage...
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  • surviving Douglas A-26 Invaders Lisunov Li-2 Lockheed F-94 Starfire Lockheed P-2 Neptune Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 North American...
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  • the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation from its founding as the Lockheed Aircraft Company in 1926 to its merging with Martin Marietta to form the Lockheed Martin...
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    early testing of the first U.S. jets, the Bell P-59 Airacomet and later the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. The squadron would also be involved in flight-testing...
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    role, configuration, and era Bell P-59 Airacomet Gloster Meteor Heinkel He 280 Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star Messerschmitt P.1099 Nakajima Ki-201 Nakajima Kikka...
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    1945, the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, when his Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star jet fighter flamed out on take-off. Charles Lindbergh became...
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    States Air Force class and the first class to fly jets. The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star would provide jet performance training at the school until 1954...
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  • Lockheed B-34/B-37 Lexington - Medium bomber Lockheed P-38 Lightning - Fighter Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star - Jet fighter Martin A-30 Baltimore - Lend-lease...
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    of 1945, the US had introduced their first jet fighter, the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star into service and the UK its second fighter design, the de Havilland...
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  • P80 (redirect from P-80 (disambiguation))
    INS Kavaratti (P80), a corvette of the Indian Navy Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, an American jet fighter Pottier P.80, a French sport aircraft Nikon Coolpix P80...
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    with the design served Lockheed well in the development of the USAAF's first operational jet fighter, the P-80 Shooting Star. Although entering combat...
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    Bell XP-83 (redirect from Bell P-83)
    scrapped in 1947. Apart from range, the XP-83 was inferior to the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star and this led to the cancellation of the XP-83 project in 1947...
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    Heinkel He 162 and was installed in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. However, it was decided that the single-seat P-80 would not be suitable for these tests...
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    fighters and fell short of other contemporary jets, such as the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, prompting concerns that the Phantom would be outmatched by future...
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  • release 733 Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star – re-issue of 70f 734 Supermarine Swift (1955) 735 Gloster Javelin (1956) 736 Hawker Hunter (1955) 737 P.1B Lightning...
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    Commanding general of Edwards AFB The prototype Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, modified as a racer and designated P-80R, was piloted by Colonel Boyd to 623.73 mph...
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    counterpart, along with a normal cockpit canopy taken from a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. The work of French designer Nicolas Roland Payen somewhat paralleled...
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  • the B-29 bomber and the air expansion cooling turbines for the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. During World War II, the invention of the Norden bombsight allowed...
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    Robin Olds (category Recipients of the Silver Star)
    the 412th Fighter Group at March Field, California, to fly the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, which began a career-long professional struggle with superiors...
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    Dassault Ouragan – (France) de Havilland Vampire – (United Kingdom) Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star – (United States) Nakajima Kikka – (Empire of Japan) Saab 29...
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    Hawker Sea Hawk Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star North American P-51 Mustang North American F-86 Sabre North American F-100 Super Sabre Republic P-47 Thunderbolt...
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    development Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star Canadair CT-133 Silver Star Lockheed F-94 Starfire Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star Lockheed T2V SeaStar Aircraft of...
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    to undertake a series of problem-free dummy dockings with a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star fighter. After boosting the trim power by 50 percent, adjusting...
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