salt_air
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Entry: Alphasim's Republic F-80 Shooting Star
Copied and pasted below from the Strategic-Air-Command.com website:
"The Shooting Star was the first USAF aircraft to exceed 500 mph in level flight, the first American jet airplane to be manufactured in large quantities and the first USAF jet to be used in combat. Designed in 1943, the XP-80 made its maiden flight on Jan. 8, 1944. Several early P-80s were sent to Europe for demonstration, but WW II ended before the aircraft could be employed in combat. (The aircraft was redesignated in 1948 when "P" for "Pursuit" was changed to "F" for "Fighter.") Of 1,731 F-80s built, 798 were F-80Cs.
Although it was designed as a high-altitude interceptor, the F-80C was used extensively as a fighter-bomber in the Korean Conflict, primarily for low-level rocket, bomb and napalm attacks against ground targets. On Nov. 8, 1950, an F-80C flown by Lt. Russell J. Brown, flying with the 16th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, shot down a Russian-built MiG-15 in the world's first all-jet fighter air battle."
Won't win any speed records with this bird, but it is fun to fly and just what the Doctor ordered for a "prop-guy".
It's got the stinkin' checklist plastered right in the middle of the panel for those of us that have all the symptoms of "ol' timer's disease".
Doesn't have the swept back wing design, so it has a lower stall speed and it just might do well with fuel usage.....we'll see.
I'll have to make a lot of stops, so this will be more like a Tour than a Race, but it should be a ton-o-fun and that's all that matters anyway.
Gratitude to all hands on Flight 19 for yet another springtime romp to remember.
Copied and pasted below from the Strategic-Air-Command.com website:
"The Shooting Star was the first USAF aircraft to exceed 500 mph in level flight, the first American jet airplane to be manufactured in large quantities and the first USAF jet to be used in combat. Designed in 1943, the XP-80 made its maiden flight on Jan. 8, 1944. Several early P-80s were sent to Europe for demonstration, but WW II ended before the aircraft could be employed in combat. (The aircraft was redesignated in 1948 when "P" for "Pursuit" was changed to "F" for "Fighter.") Of 1,731 F-80s built, 798 were F-80Cs.
Although it was designed as a high-altitude interceptor, the F-80C was used extensively as a fighter-bomber in the Korean Conflict, primarily for low-level rocket, bomb and napalm attacks against ground targets. On Nov. 8, 1950, an F-80C flown by Lt. Russell J. Brown, flying with the 16th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, shot down a Russian-built MiG-15 in the world's first all-jet fighter air battle."
Won't win any speed records with this bird, but it is fun to fly and just what the Doctor ordered for a "prop-guy".
It's got the stinkin' checklist plastered right in the middle of the panel for those of us that have all the symptoms of "ol' timer's disease".
Doesn't have the swept back wing design, so it has a lower stall speed and it just might do well with fuel usage.....we'll see.
I'll have to make a lot of stops, so this will be more like a Tour than a Race, but it should be a ton-o-fun and that's all that matters anyway.
Gratitude to all hands on Flight 19 for yet another springtime romp to remember.
