F-80C Over Korea

Special Hobby is releasing 1/32 scale of F-80C with Korean campaign markings. F-80 is one of the first jet aircraft for the Allies and is involved in the first jet-to-jet dogfight over Korea in the 1950s, against Mig-15. It also become the basis for T-33 trainer and F-94 night fighter. It is superseded by F-86 Sabre which is more famous because of its ability to deal with MiG fighters.

Shooting Stars first saw combat service in the Korean War, employing both the F-80C variant and RF-80 photo-recon variants. The F-80 flew both air-to-air and air-to-ground sorties, claiming several aerial victories against North Korean Yak-9s and Il-10s. On 8 November 1950, the first American claim for a jet-versus-jet aerial kill was made when Lieutenant Russell J. Brown, flying an F-80, reported that he shot down a MiG-15.[9] Soviet records showed that the MiG survived the combat.[9] Despite the initial claim of success, the speed of the straight-wing F-80s were inferior in performance to the 668 mph MiGs, which incorporated German research on swept wings which delayed the onset of compressibility problems that enabled speeds much closer to the speed of sound. The F-80s were soon replaced in the air superiority role by the North American F-86 Sabre, which had been delayed to also incorporate swept wings into an improved straight-winged naval FJ-1 Fury. However, F-80 pilots still claimed to have destroyed a total of six MiG-15s in aerial combat. When sufficient Sabres were in operation, the Shooting Star flew exclusively ground attack missions, and were also used for advanced flight training duties and air defense in Japan. By the end of hostilities, the only F-80s still flying in Korea were photo-reconnaissance variants. 

Source: Wikipedia

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