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The classic trainer derivative of America's first jet-powered pursuit (fighter) aircraft, the slender P-80 Shooting Star, the T-33 (Popularly nicknamed the "T-Bird") also became America's first jet trainer. As the requirements of jet aircraft were quite different to those of traditional piston-engined ones, pilots in the late 1940s were suffering from a high accident rate. The T-33 was a proposed solution, and entered service in the late 1940s, just prior to its Soviet counterpart, the MiG-19 "Midget". Boasting the same clean lines at the revered P-80 design from which it stemmed, the T-Bird has been a favourite mount of pilots in the Americas, Europe and Asia for an impressive 50+ years.
USAF Thunderbirds F-16C Fighting Falcons #1, #2 and #3, F-16D Fighting Falcon #4 in the slot, Rocky Mountain Airshow, Aurora Reservoir, 31 May 2015.
The WC-130J on display has flown 20 hurricane missions to date, and the severe weather conditions and intense lightning strikes encountered often results in curiously frayed static discharges!
The Thunderbirds put on an incredible show under picture perfect skies at the Kirtland Air Force Base Open House in Albuquerque, NM on October 9th, 2011
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Fairchild A-10C Thunderbolt II (A10)
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Landed late this afternoon at Brisbane airport, probably on it's way to Avalon airshow this weekend.