Aerospace contractor Northrop Grumman is developing an unmanned combat jet the size of a fighter plane.
President Medvedev's signing of the new fifth-generation fighter plane contract is testament to this.
The F15 Strike Eagle is the US's two-seater, ground attack version of its main tactical fighter plane.
Last year, archaeologists unearthed parts of Sgt Holmes's fighter plane for a TV documentary about his exploits.
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Boeing and General Dynamics contend the government refused to share stealth technology needed to build the fighter plane.
NASA, America's aerospace agency, showed how to quieten the boom by using a fatter wing on a modified fighter plane.
The Sukhoi SU-35 is a single seat super maneuverable, acrobatic fighter plane.
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Enter the cockpit of a fighter plane and you will be amazed by the myriad arrays of display panels and complex control systems.
By contrast, a jet fighter plane travels at speeds of Mach 1 to Mach 2, and the Space Shuttle blasts into space at Mach 25.
But apart from the minor niggles, Mr Knapp said the Mark IA is in fantastic condition and is the best preserved early model of the fighter plane he has ever seen.
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Lindbergh's name was yet to be uttered by a single delegate, and because of an engineering conclave at a midwestern factory where he'd been advising on the design of a new fighter plane, he wasn't present or expected to be.
Initially, Russia hoped to sign a contract to deliver its T-50 fighter plane to India, but in the end India insisted on the joint development of a new aircraft, based on the T-50 but with modifications for the Indian Air Force.
In April 2001, a Peruvian fighter strafed the plane of US missionary Veronica Bowers, killing both her and her seven-month-old daughter Charity.
As an Egyptian airliner was flying them to safe haven in Tunisia, U.S. Navy fighter jets forced the plane to land at a NATO air base in Italy, where they were arrested.
As an Egyptian airliner was flying them to safe haven in Tunisia, U.S. Navy fighter jets forced the plane to land at a NATO air base in Italy, where they were detained.
Meanwhile, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which scrambled fighter jets for the wayward plane did not launch them, said it was reviewing procedures for launching the fighters to track potentially hijacked or suspicious aircraft.
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Underlying the growing tensions over Iran's nuclear program, the comments came as the Pentagon on Thursday disclosed details of an encounter Tuesday between U.S. and Iranian fighter jets after an Iranian plane approached a U.S. surveillance drone.
During World War II, America's P51 Mustang fighter, a single-engine prop plane, creamed the first fleet of German combat jets, the Messerschmitt 262.
This plane is quite simply the best fighter aircraft in the world.
When the American fighter planes escorting the drone approached the Iranian plane, it broke off its pursuit of the drone, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said.
When two U.S. fighter planes escorting the drone flew toward the Iranian plane, it broke off its pursuit, the Pentagon said.
While the Chinese plane is distinctly different from the American fighter, it clearly seeks to exploit the same stealth technology in its forward aspect that makes the F-22 so survivable.
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Fighter pilots were sent up to intercept Stewart's plane after controllers lost contact with it, and they reported its cockpit and cabin windows were frosted over.
The price-tag of a legacy fighter may appear to be lower, but if it is less likely to survive combat, or its survival depends on support from electronic jammers and other helpers that a stealthy fighter does not need, then in the end the plane with the higher price-tag may turn out to be cheaper.
Six Pakistani Air Force JF-17 fighter jets that were jointly designed by the two countries escorted his plane when it entered the country's airspace yesterday.
His most recent acquisition is an AT-6 training plane used by the Tuskegee airmen, the black pilots who flew as the 332nd Fighter Group in World War II.
McCain, who survived two plane crashes and a massive fire aboard the USS Forrestal before his A-4 Skyhawk fighter-bomber was shot down over Hanoi in 1967, said he had not given much thought to the possibility of threats to his life as a high-profile presidential candidate.
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The plane in question is believed to have crashed on 26 August 1940, brought down by an RAF fighter called the Boulton-Paul Defiant.
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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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