Spokesmen for both Mr Bush and his father, former President Bush, deny that the governor received any preferential treatment, and Mr Bush has long insisted that it was his desire to be a fighter pilot which led him to apply to the National Guard instead of opting for infantry duty in Vietnam.

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This has not stopped speculation that it will be Chen Long, a fighter pilot who has been to Russia to train with the cosmonaut programme.

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This particular box would be installed in a fighter jet, permitting the pilot to upload video at a rate of 2MB per second, presumably fed from another plane, satellite or nearby ground troops.

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