On January 8, 1944, the first prototype of the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star made its first flight. This was the first jet ...

In fact, the Shooting Star was America’s first operational jet fighter in the Korean War. Designed during the closing years of WWII and introduced in 1945, the P-80 bridged the gap between ...

Enter the Lockheed F-94 Starfire. It was developed from the T-33 Shooting Star and the F-94 became the first American all-weather jet interceptor as well as the first U.S. production jet to have ...