The P-80 won the name Shooting Star for its speed: It was the first jet to exceed 500 mph in level flight. On August 6, 1945, at 2:20 p.m., an aircraft taxied onto the runway at the Lockheed Air ...

One of those oft-forgotten systems in that often-overlooked war is the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. In fact, the Shooting Star was America’s first operational jet fighter in the Korean War.

One of the latest of these is a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, an example of the first American fighter jet to see operational ...