MAIN FEATURES
Underfuselage dive brakes
(shown lowered)
Rearward retracting,
single wheel nose
gear unit
Twin landing lights
Inward retracting,
single wheel main
landing gear unit
Trailing edge flap (shown lowered)
T-33A-1 (dirty)
Large, rear hinged, clamshell canopy with bow
1 x Allison J33-A-35
centrifugal turbojet
Pitot
Under wing bomb shackles
retained from P-80C
Fuselage lengthened with
.737 mm (29 in) forward plug
2 x 12.7 mm (.50 in) Colt-Browning M3 machine
guns with 300 rounds per gun in lower nose
Additional 305 mm
(12 in) aft plug
Avionics:
SCR-522 VHF radio; AN/ARA-6 radio compass; AN/APX-6 IFF; AN/AIC-10
interphone
K-14 gunsight
Rear fuselage
cooling louvres
Lockheed ejector seats
871 lt (192 Imp gal, 230 US gal)
Fletcher wing tip tanks,
wingspan reduced to 11.47 m
(37 ft 7.5 in)
Tailplanes mounted high
on rear fuselage
Rounded fin tip
with radio antenna
Detachable
rear fuselage
section
Fuselage
break line
2 x underfuselage dive brakes
Low mounted wing with rounded
tip, tapered with 9º 18' leading
edge sweep and 3º 50' dihedral
Hydraulically boosted ailerons
Split half
span flaps
intake bleed duct
Conventional tailplane/
elevators with rounded
tips
Intakes mounted low on fuselage
Additional rear instructor cockpit
AN/ARN-6 DF
loop antenna
in upper nose
Stall inhibitor on
wing leading edge
T-33A-1 (clean)
T-33: 2
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