In the First Jet Fighter Air Battle the U S Was at a Disadvantage
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F-80 Shooting Star: America s First Fighter Jet Gave the Nazis a Run For Their Money
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In 1945 America Finally Had a Jet Fighter: Meet the P-80 Shooting Star
The jet enginer era took off with a mighty roar as the major powers of World War II all raced to invent and field these amazingly fast warplanes.
Key point: The plane was a good step towards the jet age, but it suffered from outdated win design that worked better for propellers. Here is how the Air Force learned much from the design, but at the cost of a few pilots lives.
On November 8, 1950, a flight of four straight-winged jets swooped down on an airfield at Sinuiju, North Korea on the Korean side of the border with China. The F-80 Shooting Stars raked the airfield with their six nose-mounted .50 caliber machine guns as black bursts of antiaircraft fire tore the sky around them.