P-80 Shooting Star - Sweat Shirt Lightning MK.1A The name was simplified to

The name was simplified to Gloster Aircraft then merged with the Hawker Siddeley Group

The HCC4 version was used on the Queen's Flight of the RAF to transport VIPs and members of the Royal Family

armed with the Blenheim

carried Martel missiles and had an extra fuel tank in its bomb-bay

P-80 Shooting Star - Sweat Shirt Lightning MK.1A The name was simplified toLockheed P 80 Shooting Star The Shooting Star, designed by Kelly Johnson, was the first U. S. jet fighter. The jet first flew in 1944 and entered service with the USAAF in 1945. The P 80 was briefly operational at the end of World War II and saw combat during the Korean War.