Photos Devil Child's Focus: Lockheed P-80/F-80 Shooting Star, variants, & derivatives

[Devil Child]

Thanks @uktabber! There is so much action going on in that particular photo. Difficult to not appreciate it.

 

[Jmksea]

Unlocked the associated photo album so if anyone has Shooting Stars to add please feel free to add them to this album and link to this thread!

Lockheed P-80/F-80 Shooting Star

www.militaryimages.net

I don’t have official pictures, but my grandfather received this as a retirement present in the late 80’s after 39 years as a Boeing engineer. This was the P80 he was a crew chief for while in the USAAF

 

[Devil Child]

Very very cool @Jmksea.

Thank you for sharing this piece of your family's history.

Small world in shared interests.

 

[Jmksea]

Thanks for having this thread. I was looking at the model and, on a whim, decided to look into the P-80 more. I started reading, researching, and looking at pictures. I started getting excited when I started seeing similar tail numbers. It eventually led me to all the resources you have here. Much appreciated!

 

[Slobo]

When was "USAF" added to the upper right and lower left wings? I've seen P-8s/F-80s in 1948 with and without USAF on the wings. Any thoughts?

 

[Slobo]

So ugly that they transcend ugliness and reaches heights of beauty that common men cannot comprehend. I pray for you @Marsch.

A simple zen beauty. An alignment of form and function in a stew of bilgistic loveliness.

 

[F.L.]

And here are some exotic T-33s :

 

[F.L.]

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[TIGREDELAIRE]

greetings to all, at the recent book fair in Bogotá, the Postgraduate School of the Air Force (EPFAC) published a book about the T-33 in Colombia, a very interesting history of that aircraft in service with us.

 

[TIGREDELAIRE]

greetings to all, at the recent book fair in Bogotá, the Postgraduate School of the Air Force (EPFAC) published a book about the T-33 in Colombia, a very interesting history of that aircraft in service with us.

www.libros.publicacionesfac.com
Good afternoon friends, best regards.
this is the link (up) that leads to the books of the Colombian Air Force; The book in question can be found at the following link:

Lockheed T-33. El inicio de la era jet en Colombia | Publicaciones FAC

We await your comments, the officers who are in charge of these publications are attentive!

 

[BravoZulu]

A Lockheed F-80C-10-LO 'Shooting Star' of the 80th Fighter-bomber Squadron, 8th Fighter-Bomber Group. Korea 1950-52

 

[BravoZulu]

USAF Fighter Weapons School F-80 44-85182 about 1950

 

[BravoZulu]

FP-80A (F-80), Shooting Star

 

[BravoZulu]

The F-80 Shooting Star, first introduced into the Test Pilot School curriculum in August 1947, allowed students to learn the unique characteristics of jet aircraft. Major Nathan Rosengarten, Chief, Air Technical Service Command Flight Research Branch, checks data with pilot Captain Conrad Nelson

 

[BravoZulu]

Air Training Command Aviation Cadets gathered around a Lockheed F-80. Their instructor is describing ther upcoming mission

 

[F.L.]

Air Training Command Aviation Cadets gathered around a Lockheed F-80. Their instructor is describing ther upcoming mission

Wahoo, the old WW2 style flight suits !

 

[BravoZulu]

Test pilot Lawrence A. Clousing climbs into his Lockheed P-80 aircraft for a test flight at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California. 1948

 

[BravoZulu]

F-80 "Shooting Star" jettisons his two 165 gallon Napalm-filled tanks at target. This occurred during a demonstration for President Truman at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, April 21, 1950

 

[F.L.]

Brazilian F-80C :

 

[BravoZulu]

F-80s and F-47s of the 36th and 86th Fighter Wings over Germany. 1948