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 ...

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 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.

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.

But on Tuesday, Iowa National Guardsmen sling-loaded a vintage Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star fighter jet onto a CH-47 Chinook, a specialized army helicopter, to return the historic plane from Sioux ...

The military decided not to proceed with the P-59 and instead focused its attention on the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, which ultimately became the United States' first operational jet fighter.

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.