The Jet That Fought A Dirty War

The futuristic-looking T-33 Shooting Star was born out of the iconic Lockheed P-80, the first jet fighter used operationally by the United States Army Air Forces.

Crucial in training pilots to be assigned to mighty fighters such as the McDonnell F-101 Voodoo, Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, or Convair F-106 Delta Dart, the Shooting Star left an endearing mark in the hearts of hundreds of American pilots.

Even so, several foreign nations would use the seemingly harmless training plane for much darker purposes, and its guns would be turned against US forces during a brutal covert operation at the height of the Cold War…

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