1945 Authority Wall Art

1945 Authority — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. The P-80 Shooting Star proved that American industry could design and mass-produce jet fighters without relying on captured German research alone — a Skunk Works achievement that accelerated every subsequent Lockheed program from the F-104 to the F-117. Though it arrived too late for World War II combat, the Shooting Star's Korea service as the F-80C and its T-33 trainer derivative trained a generation of jet pilots on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The Gloster Meteor became the only Allied jet fighter to see combat during World War II, entering service weeks before VE Day and scoring kills against V-1 flying bombs over southern England. Frank Whittle's turbojet programme — classified for years — gave Britain a jet-age head start that the Meteor's conservative straight-wing design only partially exploited.

Updated 14 Jun 2026