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Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:29 pm
by Clipper
Here's a mini history of a great vintage jet seldom flown here at the "V"

Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star

Re: Prof. Clipper's Aircraft History / Shooting St

PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:41 pm
by killerbunny
An aviation history lesson AND fantastic pics!

What could I wish more? :)

Re: Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:46 pm
by simonmd
Fascinating!

Re: Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:40 pm
by Marlin
Excellant, thank you.

That first shot there, were did you get that screnery? It is a must have  ;)

Re: Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:48 pm
by Gunny04
Very nice lesson! and great shots! Cheers

Re: Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:48 am
by lemoncat
a great read with some lovely shots of this great jet clipper...no's 1,,2 are superb :) :)

Re: Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:29 am
by cspyro21
Wow....great shots and a lesson included!!  ;D ;D
Cheers  ;)

Re: Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:03 am
by Stratosaurus
Nice and useful. Very thank you Clipper.

Regards from Spain.

Re: Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:42 am
by gryshnak
[quote]Do you know what food product company issued these coins in the 60's?[/size]

Re: Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:56 am
by Clipper
Excellant, thank you.

That first shot there, were did you get that screnery? It is a must have  ;)


The scenery is from Holger Sandmann, genius at large. He's the mesh artist equivelant of Bill and Lynn Lyons.
Available here...http://library.avsim.net/sendfile.php?Location=AVSIM&Proto=ftp&DLID=73619

Please take note there will be a Shooting Star exam at 16:00 hrs this afternoon.... ;)

Re: Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:46 am
by RollerBall
Glorious shots. And that first one in particular looks so realistic.... :D

Re: Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:53 am
by Omag 2.0
Great great great... love the sixth shot! What model did you use?

Re: Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:07 am
by elite marksman
Although successful, you forgot one of the P-80's most laughable failures. A target drone (retired F6F Hellcat if memory serves me right) went out of control and turned toward Los Angeles. A flight of P-80s were scrambled to intercept the hellcat and shoot it down while it was still over the desert and since the P-80 had no gun, it had to rely soley on its rocket pods, and the pilots could not hit the drone. Eventually it ran out of fuel and crashed into the suburbs sourrounding Los Angeles. Feel free to correct any mistakes, I'm relating this from an article I read in Air & Space a month or two ago.

Re: Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:43 am
by The_Joker_Flyer
Cool shots... ands i like the informative information you added!!!!!  It was very interesting ;D ;)

Re: Clipnotes: Aviation History / Shooting Star

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:11 pm
by gryshnak
It looks better with the Thunderbirds paint job.
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The reason I don't fly it very often, is because it comes from an era when everyone was making ugly planes (and everything else as well, from ugly cars to ugly kitchen appliances).  I've seen a couple of these at museums this year, and frankly I didn't take many photos of them.  They're just not my thing.  Important bit of history, sure, just not very pretty.

Gryshnak