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Dyess AFB Linear Air Park. Built by the Lockheed Corporation as a T-33A and originally assigned to Big Spring, Texas (AFB) from March, 1952 to February, 1953. It was transferred in 1954 to the 3560th Pilot Training Wing at Webb AFB, Texas where it operated until retired in September 1961.
The Canadair CT-133 was the result of a 1951 contract to build T-33 Shooting Star trainers for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) with a Rolls-Royce Nene 10 turbojet. A project designation of CL-30 was given by Canadair and the name was changed to Silver Star.
The Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star (or T-Bird) is an American subsonic jet trainer. It was produced by Lockheed and made its first flight in 1948. The T-33 was developed from the Lockheed P-80/F-80 starting as TP-80C/TF-80C in development, then designated T-33A. It was used by the U.S. Navy initially as TO-2, then TV-2, and after 1962, T-33B. The ...
Lockheed manufactured over 5,000 so-called "T-Birds" between 1948 and 1959, used by air forces around the world until the fleet was slowly phased out starting in the 1980s.
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Lockheed C-130D Hercules: USAF 57-0493: On outdoor display, equipped with skis for operations at the North Pole. Lockheed EC-121T Warning Star: USAF 53-0554: On outdoor display Lockheed VC-121A Constellation "Columbine I" USAF 48-0614: On outdoor display. Used as the first personal aircraft of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Lockheed F-94C Starfire: USAF ...
A Lockheed T-33A-1-LO Shooting Star, 49-917, of the 5th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 52d Fighter-Interceptor Group, crashes on take off from McGuire Air Force Base into a scrub pine forest at adjacent Fort Dix, New Jersey, killing the two crew and spraying burning fuel over a group of 54 U.S. Army soldiers assigned to B battery of the Ninth ...
The first aircraft with variable-sweep wings, the Bell X-5, makes its first flight, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. No attempt is made to change the sweep of its wings during the flight. [53] The first aircraft completely designed and built in Canada, the first example of the Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck Mark 2, flies for the first time. [54]