{"id":120540,"date":"2024-09-04T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-wwii-usaaf-p-80-shooting-star-influenced-modern-american-jet-fighters\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:00:12","slug":"how-the-wwii-usaaf-p-80-shooting-star-influenced-modern-american-jet-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=120540","title":{"rendered":"How The WWII USAAF P-80 Shooting Star Influenced Modern American Jet Fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    For the United States Army Air Force (later <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">US Air Force<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-facts-lockheed-p-80-shooting-star-turbo-jet-fighter\/\">the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star was the first of its kind<\/a> &#8211; it was the first American fighter jet used operationally. Germany and Great Britain led the race to develop jet fighters in <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/wwii\/\">WWII<\/a>, fielding them before the end of the war. The US and Japan were nearly fielding them by the war&#8217;s end (the USSR was far behind). The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.com\/en-us\/news\/features\/history\/p80.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Lockheed P-80<\/a> Shooting Star was designed and built by <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lockheed\/\">Lockheed<\/a> in 1943 but did not see combat in WWII.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the P-80 Shooting Star, the US caught up with Britain and Germany and made great strides in developing the fighter jet age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,628,408,1624,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-fighter-jets","category-history","category-lockheed","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120541,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120540\/revisions\/120541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}