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The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star is the first jet fighter used operationally by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II. [1] Designed and built by Lockheed in 1943 and delivered just 143 days from the start of design, two pre-production models saw limited service in Italy just before the end of World War II.
XP-49: Fighter Lockheed Corporation: Developed from the P-38 Lightning in response to U.S. Army Air Corps proposal 39-775 1942 Never 1 XP-53: Fighter Curtiss Model 88; derivative of XP-46; cancelled in favor of XP-60 in November 1941. Two built, one converted to the XP-60, the other used as a static test airframe. Unknown Unknown 1 P-70 Havoc ...
Some of the group of independent-minded engineers were later involved with the XP-80 project, the prototype of the P-80 Shooting Star. Mary G. Ross, the first Native American female engineer, began working at Lockheed in 1942 on the mathematics of compressibility in high-speed flight [11] —a problem first seriously encountered in the P-38. [12]
Lockheed None 1971 high-performance research aircraft. High-performance fighter [40] Proposed development of Lockheed CL-1200 Lancer. Canceled and never flew. X-28 Sea Skimmer: Osprey: USN 1970 Low-cost aerial policing seaplane [41] X-29: Grumman: DARPA, USAF, NASA 1984 Forward-swept wing [42] X-30 NASP: Rockwell: NASA, DARPA, USAF 1993
Fighter aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-air combat.This list does not aim to include attack aircraft primarily intended for different roles, where they have some secondary air-to-air capability.
Following the war flight testing officially became the base's primary mission. Test work on the Lockheed P-80, the successor to the XP-59 was undertaken for the greater part of 1945. The Convair XP-81 and Republic XP-84 Thunderjet arrived at Muroc in 1946 for testing. It was clear by this time that the base's mission would be a proving ground ...
On January 9, 1944, he turned the first flight of Lulu-Belle, the XP-80 prototype, into a thrilling low-level airshow before a crowd of military and civilian VIPs at Muroc Army Air Base (now Edwards AFB). On October 20, 1944 Burcham was flying the third production prototype YP-80 from Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank, California. The engine ...
The 412th was the first American jet fighter group to be activated. The P-59A was shortly joined by a second jet fighter, the Lockheed XP-80 Shooting Star. As with virtually all of the test programs conducted during the war years, most of the initial flight test work on the XP-59 had been conducted by the contractor. [6]