What kind of fighter plane is this?

[TruckDriver]

I took this at the Sheboygan County airport today where we were doing some paving. I think it's cool how they got it in the air.

[TruckDriver]

 

[stripedelete]

Banshee?

[learical1]

Looks like a Lockheed T-33 (2 seat trainer version of the P-80 fighter) without the wingtip tanks.

[BigBlackDodge]

F-80


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-80_Shooting_Star



BBD

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Looks like a Lockheed T-33 (2 seat trainer version of the P-80 fighter) without the wingtip tanks.

Yep............two seats t-33

[BrianShaughnessy]

Pretty sure it's a F80 Shooting Star

[learical1]

Canopy looks too big for a P-80, more likely the 2 seat T-33 trainer variant.

[A383Wing]

It's a silver one...on a stick  

[Budnicks]

Looks like a Lockheed T-33 (2 seat trainer version of the P-80 fighter) without the wingtip tanks.

That's what I was going to say a T-33 trainer,    maybe

[John_Kunkel]

The canopy makes it a T-33, I wrenched on a few.

[Ponch ®]

learical wins

http://sheboyganhub.sheboyganpress.com/article/20111003/SHE0101/110030359/Aviation-Heritage-Center-Sheboygan-County-airport-gets-piece-history

[MoparManJim]

I'm not sure, but it's a plane with a pole stuck up it's butt 

[b5blue]

John is right (again) the T is for Trainer hence room for teacher and trainee in a longer canopy. I had the honor of clearing a Shooting Star to land at Lackland AFB back in 77, she was gorgeous even taxing on the ramps. (We even had a vintage 1955 B-52 still in service, on the flight-line, combat ready to haul nukes.)

[hemi68charger]

John is right (again) the T is for Trainer hence room for teacher and trainee in a longer canopy. I had the honor of clearing a Shooting Star to land at Lackland AFB back in 77, she was gorgeous even taxing on the ramps. (We even had a vintage 1955 B-52 still in service, on the flight-line, combat ready to haul nukes.)

Ahhhhh, my first-now-I-reflect-glory-days of working on B-52s and loading those nucs back in '87....... Static displays are cool.

[John_Kunkel]

It was a kick watching novice pilots try to taxi the T-33, there is no nose gear steering so they had to turn with differential braking and the engine is really slow to spool up when given throttle so they would loose momentum in mid turn and have to give it a lot of throttle to get moving again...the jet blast would send ground equipment flying in every direction. DUCK!!!

[b5blue]

  The one I handled, I "broke regulations" to comment I couldn't believe my eyes and how beautiful as it was buffed to perfection. The pilot replied like a proud poppa: She's my baby!  I'd always hoped to run across an F-86 also but never did.

[Patronus]

SheVega$! thats my ol stompin ground..

[Budnicks]

The one I handled, I "broke regulations" to comment I couldn't believe my eyes and how beautiful as it was buffed to perfection. The pilot replied like a proud poppa: She's my baby!  I'd always hoped to run across an F-86 also but never did.

I'm by far no plane expert, the F-85 & F-86 were the Korean war era "Banshee" weren't they ?  an old friend of mine had a couple F-85 jet engines in his & his wife's, 2 jet cars is the only reason I think I remember that, one of my sisters, a brother in law & my oldest nephew were in the Air Force & I visited them at McConnell AFB in Wichita, Kansas & Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage, Alaska I got to do the flight line inspection with my nephew, I got to see a bunch of very cool fighters & trainers back then, my favorite was the F-15's they looked bad a$$ & so huge up close...

[TruckDriver]

Thanks for everyones input. Very interesting reading all your posts 

[b5blue]

Thanks for posting this topic and pics!  The F-86 was in Korea and it's battles with the MIG's are the stuff of legends in air combat now. 

[gtx6970]

Looks like a big lollipop

[A383Wing]

maybe it could be Jeff Dunham's new puppet

"Fighter Plane....on a stick"

[Magnumcharger]

The one I handled, I "broke regulations" to comment I couldn't believe my eyes and how beautiful as it was buffed to perfection. The pilot replied like a proud poppa: She's my baby!  I'd always hoped to run across an F-86 also but never did.

I'm by far no plane expert, the F-85 & F-86 were the Korean war era "Banshee" weren't they ?  an old friend of mine had a couple F-85 jet engines in his & his wife's, 2 jet cars is the only reason I think I remember that, one of my sisters, a brother in law & my oldest nephew were in the Air Force & I visited them at McConnell AFB in Wichita, Kansas & Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage, Alaska I got to do the flight line inspection with my nephew, I got to see a bunch of very cool fighters & trainers back then, my favorite was the F-15's they looked bad a$$ & so huge up close...

Banshee's were aircraft carrier launched ASW jets. The first of their kind.
The T-33 was a trainer of the same era, single engine, centrifugal turbine (a very rudimentary jet engine design).

In the Canadian Air Force, we flew these jets for over 50 years! Right up to 2005.
At the end, we were robbing parts off of the display jets in museums and on poles just like this one, just to keep it going.

[Aero426]

Well at least I know that it's not an Avro Arrow.   

[68neverlate]

Banshee's were aircraft carrier launched ASW jets. The first of their kind.
The T-33 was a trainer of the same era, single engine, centrifugal turbine (a very rudimentary jet engine design).

In the Canadian Air Force, we flew these jets for over 50 years! Right up to 2005.
At the end, we were robbing parts off of the display jets in museums and on poles just like this one, just to keep it going.

I remember seeing these flying overhead for many years in my home town up here in the great white north when I was a kid.  They had the wingtip tanks painted in a florescent orange... very distinguishable!