T-Bird – Steel City Snapper photography

Of all the aircraft at Newark Air Museum, it was the Lockheed T-33A that got the most attention from my camera. Something about those zebra stripes on its nose did it for me a guess.

Although originally put in service as a jet fighter, the Shooting Star (or T-Bird as it was otherwise known) spent much of it’s operational life serving as a training aircraft. Amazingly, despite first going into service in the late 1940s, the Bolivian airforce only retired theirs from service in 2017!

It’s a pretty nice looking machine.