The Shooting Star also helps round out the ... Grumman F9F Panther and the McDonnell F2H Banshee, the Navy had experimented ...

For the United States, that transition began with the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, America’s first operational jet fighter. Debuting at the tail end of World War II, the P-80 was later ...

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.