In 1946 a Shooting Star made the first jet-powered coast-to-coast flight across the United States from Long Beach California to New York. The same year, an F-80 unit flew across the Atlantic.

But the Shooting Star served as a watershed moment for U.S. military aircraft, ushering in a new era—the jet era—within which we still reside. Building a Jet Fighter from Scratch ...

In fact, the Shooting Star was America’s first operational jet fighter in the Korean War. Designed during the closing years of WWII and introduced in 1945, the P-80 bridged the gap between ...

In 1946 a Shooting Star made the first jet-powered coast-to-coast flight across the United States from Long Beach California to New York. The same year, an F-80 unit flew across the Atlantic.

I had the rare opportunity to fly in a historic jet trainer ahead of the Pacific Airshow in October. The T-33 Shooting Star was used to train US Air Force pilots on jet aircraft until the early 1960s.

The P-80 won the name Shooting Star for its speed: It was the first jet to exceed 500 mph in level flight. On August 6, 1945, at 2:20 p.m., an aircraft taxied onto the runway at the Lockheed Air ...

The Airacomet was quickly followed by another plane, the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. The P-80 was also developed on a compressed time frame, beginning development in 1943, with first flight in 1944.

The fighter jet is an iconic aspect of the military, ... The result was the P-80 Shooting Star, which went from design to deployment in a staggeringly short 143 days.

One of the airplanes belongs to EAA's collection, with the other is on loan from its owner until AirVenture 2025, when the plane will participate in air shows.

But we know the P-80 Shooting Star did not fare well in Korea, with seventeen lost in air-to-air combat against six claimed MiG-15s. If nothing else, the Shooting Star paved the way for the jet ...

RASCOE: So he shined a light into the Shooting Star, a 1950s fighter jet, where the sound was coming from. FALLS: And very faintly in the darkness, I could see this furry, little head pop up.