T-33 Shooting Star "Ace Maker" demo!
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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This is the T-33 Shooting Star "Ace Maker" at the 2015 SUN 'n FUN International Fly-In & Expo. Enjoy the video!
Here is some info about Ace Maker via their website.
XP-80/YP-80/P-80A (T-33 Specifications here)
T-33 Shooting StarOn June 23, 1943 General Hap Arnold approved a letter contract for Lockheed to build the XP-80. The first XP-80, nicknamed Lulubelle, was built in the security of a temporary structure thrown together in 10 days from old engine packing crates. An entire machine shop was purchased so that the tools needed to build Lulubelle would not be taken away from the Lockheed assembly line currently in wartime production. 123 men, 23 engineers and 105 shop men worked 10 hours a day, 6 days a week to build the first XP-80. The head designer was non other than the famed Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson. On January 8, 1944, just 203 days after the contract was signed the XP-80 lifted off the dry lake bed with Milo Burcham at the controls. Lulubelle flew! Top speed was 502 mph.
The Air corps wanted it and many more but de Havilland could not deliver the engines needed. General Electric proposed that Lockheed use their refined "Whittle" engine called the I-40. But due to it's larger size, Lockheed would have to build and almost entirely new air frame. Lockheed built the new air frame as the XP-80A, and Tony LeVier test flew it on June 10, 1944. With 1600 lbs. more thrust and a slick new gray paint job, the XP-80A flew at 561 mph.
Army Air Corps did two things - put the P-80A into full production, and sent two YP-80As to Great Britain and two more to Italy for the purpose of combat testing and to build the sagging moral of bomber crews that faced the German Jet threat every day from the ME262. Both aircraft sent to England suffered problems - one being totally destroyed and the other being fitted with a Rolls-Royce engine. The two sent to Italy performed well. They did get in a few combat missions, but VE day closed out any chance of their meeting the vaunted German Jets. Army Air Corps ordered 4390 F-80As.
The P-80A was essentially the same aircraft as the YP-80A. Dive brakes and boundary layer bleed ducts had now been installed and the armament bay redesigned. The GE I-40, now designated the J-33 was replaced by the Allison-built J-33-9/11, and later F-80A-5s by the J-33-17.
TF-80C/T-33A
Lockheed pushed the Army Air Corps for a jet trainer version but the Air Corps saw no need for such an aircraft and they didn't want to "waste" any fighter air frames. The methods for training jet pilots in 1947 was 180 hours in the T-6, 50 hours in P-51 Mustangs, and about 25 hours in a "captive" P-80.
Finally in January 1948 a cost-conscious Air Force awarded a contract for 20 TF-80C jet trainers and the designation was later changed to T-33A. The original trainer version was an F-80B fuselage with a 26 inch section added forward of the wingroot. Another 12 inch section was added forward of the rear fuselage for balance and stability. Additional differences between the P-80B and the TF-80C were: smaller 85 gallon fuselage fuel tank, nylon fuel cells, two .50 caliber guns instead of six, improved air conditioning, and of course dual fight controls. Also a six gun nose could be fitted to the T-33. Early models even had 1000 lb. bomb shackles on the wings. The only major change to the T-33 was the addition of Fletcher-type wingtip tanks. Almost 6000 T-33s were built, including 649 for the Navy and 1058 for foreign air forces. Canadair built 656 MKIIIs under license and Kawasaki built 210.
T33 Lockheed shooting Star Shooting Stars over Korea
On November 8, 1950, the first jet-vs-jet aerial combat took place between a P-80 Shooting Star and a MIG-15 in the area in northwest Korea later known as "MIG Alley." Several days prior to the fateful day, MIG-15 jets had been encountered by U.S. AF F-51Ds on patrol near the Yalu River area. On the afternoon of 8 November, Lt. Russell Brown piloting his Shooting Star of the 16th Fighter Squadron, outmaneuvered two attacking MIG-15s, tacked onto the tail of one of them, and poured .50 caliber fire into him until the MIG exploded. It was the first of 827 MIGs to be shot down in Korea and the first jet-vs-jet victory ever. Units in Korea also used the TF-80C/T-33 and the RF-80. TF-80Cs and T-33s were used for photo-recon and pilot familiarization flights.
Information above from squadron/signal publications P-80 Shooting Star
T-33/F-94 in action
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The T-33 had no "OFFICIAL" name. The single seat fighter P-80 / F-80 was the Shooting Star. The T-33 was Unofficially known as the T-Bird.
While stationed at Elmendorf AFB, AK from 1974-1978, there were two T-33 aircraft on the flightline. Both were used in training with the F-4Cs assigned there. They flew as oppositional (enemy) aircraft during training missions. They had a very good record flying against the faster F-4. They often flew with chaff pods for use in jamming radar signals. They were not armed. In 1976, one of the aircraft was painted up for duty during fourth of July celebrations, noting the bicentennial. I no longer have the pictures of that aircraft. It looked stunning in the red-white-and blue paint scheme. I worked as an enlisted communications specialist. There were very few problems with this AC. Both the flyers and the ground personnel liked this AC. It's great to see it flying at this air show. Thanks. Brings back very pleasant memories.
Every time I see a T-33 flying, I think to myself, "That is the most beautiful plane ever made."
Hey thanks man!! Yes I Was scheduled to fly this year but had a show in Texas I had to fly. I will be back in 2017 though in Ace Maker II!
+AceMaker33 I look forward to it!
@@Xrm150 素晴らしい動画です
Thanks for the memory. Class 62-F at Willie, Deuces through 1971. Always current in the Bird. Ignition, then fuel. Made the day. Ro
Beautiful aircraft/... :)
Porque sacan de circulación aviones como el tetra don eficases y de vuelo hermoso
Lo volé en la FAM. 300 horas. Excelente avión 😊
the T-33 reminds me of Tyndall AFB, Fl. back in 1982-83 when I went for Air Weapons Controller school. I enjoyed that experience!
This is when flying a fighter took serious skill!! today the computer does everything for you....except dogfight...that's the last real skill of a fighter pilot anymore!!
I always loved this plane for some reason. Even more then the F-80. That longer fuselage and canopy, and the big tip tanks make it look slimmer and faster, even if it's unarmed. And for some reason tip tanks just turn me on, big tip tanks (though I like smaller ones too). F-104, T-33, F-84, F9F, T-37, P-2, all sharp looking, just because those straight wings and tip tanks.
I love T BIRDS !. { Former crew chief }
May I ask, where and when? USAF Elmendorf, AFB 1974-1978 comm sqdn
Exellent flying of T 33 Bird.
Beautiful jet ! The Vermont ANG used to have T-33's when I was a kid. I could watch them flying and even go look at them at the ANG base (it was nearby). I just wish I might have wrangled a ride in one somehow. Anyway, it's nice to see that at least one is still flying ! Good video. Thanks !
Beautiful. Well done.
I am from VT. My mother described the planes she remembered as a kid flying out of Burlington, and I determined that they were T-33s just from the way she described them. She also described seeing jets that I can only assume were F-102s flying overhead very low when she was young.
@@justforever96 I've lived all over the country, but I'm back living about 4 blocks away from where I was as that little kid. Now they have the new F-35 fighters. Those things go roaring over my house at maybe 1,000 - 1,500 ft. There is no muffling technology on the engines, and they can make your bones literally rattle they're so loud. They're like airliners in the 1960's !
Nice job! I hopefully will be back at Sun n Fun in 2016 if it works out with my schedule.
Looking forward to it..... And a ride =)
You never know!!
+AceMaker33 To bad you didn't make it out to SUN 'n FUN Sunday. They had you on the schedule. Was looking forward to seeing your performance again.
Was fortunate while a crew chief on the T-33 to be aboard a X country flight form Florida to New Mexico.
these are the first planes in Greece..!
Nice looking plane looks so much better than its rival the German ME 262 when the T-33 was basically the P-80 Shooting star during WW2. Which was the better performer?
I think you mean Korean War.
@@bobpeg7457 The P-80 was first flown in 1944 during WW2. Actually went into service in 1945.
the T-33 is a bit faster than the F-80. Because when they stretched the fuselage to make the T-33. it gave the airframe a bit more aerodynamics.
En la segunda guerra mundial cuanndo el Messerschmitt -262 operaba en escuadrones atacando las formaciones de bombarderos pesados B-17, el P-80 estaba en su etapa de vuelo de prototipos.
Aunque desde su diseño estuvo mal por sus alas rectas lo considero de los aviones más bonitos que han existido. No solo por que lo haya volado😅
I went on a hop in a T-33 in 1979 when I was air cadet
I Remember watching a episode of airplane repo once and Kevin lacey reposed a Lockheed t 33 that's wasn't your plane was it ace maker was it????
+michael eagles no uit was mine =/
And BTW it was at the 2015 Sun N Fun..;-)
Typo =p Thanks for spotting it
Welcome
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+FlightPass thanks!
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Gorgeous plane!
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yo tenía ese avión
Arent there some still in service in Bolivia?
que genial y bakan lástima que ya no lo tenemos
Trés beau visuel....
Soy vintage😂
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Fast and elusive!! 👍🏾👍🏾
Tengo 400 horas de tetra. Gran avión😍
300 nudos nivel del mar!
Extaño las g's
y ahora de helicopteros😂
Las batidoras , tambien son avionas 😅😅😅😅