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After receiving documents and blueprints comprising years of British jet aircraft research, the commanding General of the Army Air Forces, Henry H. Arnold, believed an airframe could be developed to accept the British-made jet engine, and the Materiel Command's Wright Field research and development division tasked Lockheed to design the aircraft.
At war's end he was evaluating the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star and was to have flown the very aircraft that fighter ace Richard Bong was eventually killed in.