MAIN FEATURES
Rearward retracting,
single wheel nose gear
2 x dive brakes
(shown extended)
Flaps (shown lowered)
Inward retracting, single
wheel main gear unit
F-80C (armed and dirty)
AN/ARC-3 antenna in fin cap
6 x 12.7 mm (.50 in) Colt-Browning M2 machine guns
with 200 rounds per gun in lower nose
Hardpoint under each wing
Distinctive 568 lt (125 Imp gal,
150 US gal) teardrop under
slung wing tip drop tank
454 kg (1,000 lb) general purpose bomb
Provision for 4 x HVAR (High Velocity
Aircraft Rocket) points under each wing
Avionics:
AN/ARC-3 VHF radio; AN/ARA-6
radio compass; AN/APX-6 IFF
K-14B or K-14C
reflector gunsight
AN/ARN-6 DF loop antenna
in upper nose
Provision for 2 x 454 kg
(1,000 lb) thrust JATO
(Jet Assisted Take Off)
bottles
F-80C (armed)
Rounded fin tip
Rearward sliding bubble canopy
Antenna
Tailplanes mounted high
on rear fuselage
Low mounted wing with rounded
tip, tapered with 9º 18' leading
edge sweep and 3º 50' dihedral
Under nose pitot
Side intakes
mounted low
on fuselage
Antenna
1 x Allison J33-A-23
centrifugal turbojet
with water/ethanol
injection
2 x underfuselage dive brakes
Fuselage break line
Detachable
rear fuselage
section
Hydraulically boosted ailerons
Stall inhibitor on
wing leading edge
Lockheed ejector seat
intake bleed ducts
Split half
span flaps
Conventional tailplane/
elevators with rounded
tips
Engine bay
cooling ducts
F-80C (clean)
F-80: 2
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