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F-80 Shooting Star: America's First Fighter Jet Gave the Nazis a Run For Their Money nationalinterest.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationalinterest.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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 Key point: The plane was a good step towards the jet age, but it suffered from outdated win design that worked better for propellers.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. ....
Dog Fight: U.S. F-80 Pilots Found Trouble Getting Their Wings Over Korea nationalinterest.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationalinterest.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
F-80 Shooting Star: America s First Fighter Jet Originally meant to take on the Nazis but these fighters ended up fighting communist North Korea. Here s how they performed. Here s What You Need to Remember: Hastily designed to counter Nazis superfighters in the early 1940s, America’s first operational fighter jet would have an unexpected and long-lasting legacy. 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. ....