This Shooting Star had originally been manufactured in Lockheed's Burbank ... In September 1948, F-80C 47-1388 was accepted ...

On January 8, 1944, the first prototype of the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star ... the P-80 became the F-80. As the F-80, the Shooting Star would see combat with the USAF during the Korean War ...

The Lockheed L-133 Starjet was a prime example of a paradoxical “successful failure.” As I asserted in a recent article for The National Interest, of all the great geniuses in the history of military ...