Really? No Duh. I said it wasn't built. It has to have been in Combat. There is no number requirement. It was a squadron of 4 P-80's. I think chasing down the 234 to shoot it down qualifies as combat missions.
Two YP-80s were sent to the UK and two to Italy, but in no case were they intended for combat. They were sent so that service pilots could give some feedback on them. They did not fly anywhere near where they would encounter enemy aircraft and most certainly were never tasked with hunting any of them. I am also highly skeptical of the claims about a pre-war US jet design given that the Whittle design was sent over by the UK during the war.The only Allied jet to see combat was the Gloster Meteor Mk I, against V1s, and Meteor Mk III, against V1s and ground attack on the continent.
Last i read was they where about the fly their first mission hours after the German surrender. Neverless, talking about the P-80 seeing combat in WWII is like beating a dead horse.
So basically this is a "I know the British Meteor gets roundly castigated as not having seen real combat because all it did was shoot down drones and do some ground attack late in the war, but this one is American so we should add it despite it having seen absolutely no combat because it is American!" type of thing?
Like, ya know, when that thing that makes you move, it has pistons and things, When your thingamajigy is providing power, you do not hear other peoples thingamajig when they are providing power. HiTech
At this point in AH they could literally add flying hair dryers to the game and I wouldn't care.If I can shoot it down, then good to go.
No, in every Meteor thread there are always people saying that it doesn't qualify because those things weren't "real" combat. Usually they are German aircraft fans, but sometimes they are just against more hair dryers being added.
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What I have found so far. Most of the links don't work anymore on the first site.http://forum.armyairforces.com/1st-FG-and-the-Lockheed-YP80A-Shooting-Star-m94873.aspxhttp://warbirdsforum.com/showthread.php?t=990http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=71485