The P-80 won the name Shooting Star for its speed ... and an unidentified man with a Lockheed XP-80A prototype. P-80s await engines in Burbank. A P-80A captured in flight, 1945.

For the United States, that transition began with the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, America’s first operational ... Lockheed ...

One of those oft-forgotten systems in that often-overlooked war is the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. In fact, the Shooting ...