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To: Jerome who wrote (43862)	3/16/2001 12:27:07 PM
From: mitch-c	Read Replies (1) of 70976

OT- military aircraft Well, I've always been a military aviation buff and a frustrated pilot wanna-be. (Uncalibrated eyeballs kept me away, even from civil aviation.) <edited here with additional memory> The Navy had a carrier-launched jet fighter - I think it was the F9F TigerCat. It's a tossup between that and the P-80 for first use. <end edit> The P-80 Shooting Star was the first US jet widely used there, IIRC; it was an end-of-WWII product (I think the UK's Meteor may have been used earlier - not sure.) The F-86 SabreJet is the most famous jet from later that conflict, facing off the Chinese Mig-17's in the airspace over the Yalu River. P-51's mostly flew the type of interdiction ground-attack missions that the P-47's handled in WWII. Trivia note - the newly-formed USAF changed its aircraft designators from P- (for Pursuit) to F- (for Fighters) midway in the Korean War. The P-80 and the F-80 were the same aircraft, as were the P-51 and F-51. The same was true of light bombers, which went from the B- designator to the A- (Attack) designator. The B-26 Marauder and the A-26 Havoc shared the same airframe. - Mitch@triviaregurgitation.org <g>

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