There seemed to be no contact with the world apart from the roar of a jet fighter looping Manhattan.
In 1996, while trying to purchase a T-38 jet fighter, Oracle Corp.
Until now, the main French effort against the rebels has been aerial bombardment of their positions using jet fighter planes and helicopters.
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.
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Mastering original jet fighter technology is a challenge and learning about one of the hottest battles of the Cold War makes it a simulation worth flying.
It includes ground troops with supporting artillery, amphibious assault vehicles and light armour, plus transport and attack helicopters and perhaps AV-8B Harrier jet fighter-bombers, capable of taking off and landing vertically.
Lamborghini isn't exaggerating when it likens the interior to a jet fighter's cockpit -- the pilot gets a heads-up display as a matter of course, and has to climb over the car body just to crawl inside.
Boyd is considered the father of the F-16, an inexpensive, highly maneuverable jet fighter that the Air Force brass resisted with all their might. ( Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ) has since cranked out more than 4, 000 of them).
Given the relatively low costs of drones -- already far cheaper than the costs of a fighter jet and of training a fighter jet pilot -- armed drones will play a key role in future conflicts.
As the most expensive defence project ever undertaken starts to come to fruition, the BBC has been given exclusive access to the world's most advanced fighter jet, the Joint Strike Fighter or F-35.
We are taking a closer look at the F-35 fighter jet at Lockheed Martin's Fighter Demonstration Center just outside our nation's capital, but, being in the middle of a corporate complex, there's no actual Lightning II on hand.
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An Israeli air force engineer even produced a matkot paddle made of fighter jet alloys.
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In June the defence minister flew on board a Russian-built supersonic Sukhoi-30 fighter jet.
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It was blamed on a mid-air collision with a Libyan MiG 23 fighter jet.
For a start, Mr Tamogami, it transpires, took Mr Motoya for a joy-ride in a fighter jet.
Last year at this time, we had proposed canceling the F-22 fighter jet.
However, the initial US response might well include missile and fighter jet strikes.
They can also significantly reduce civilian casualties: a drone strike often replaces a big bomb dropped from a fighter jet.
On this carrier the runout (the area from where a fighter jet lands to where it stops) is 340 feet.
In the past few weeks China has made a splash with progress on an anti-ship missile and a stealth fighter jet.
The program was halted due to high unit cost of F-22 and delays in Russian and Chinese fifth-generation fighter jet programs.
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After the impact, Osborn said, he saw the parachute of the Chinese pilot and his smoking fighter jet plunging toward the South China Sea.
Here you can be at the controls of your own fighter jet.
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In fact, there is a wide gap between the skill sets required for flying a fighter jet and those for a commercial aircraft.
When his MiG fighter jet crashed in Kashmir on May 27, the Indian Air Force pilot parachuted into enemy territory and was taken prisoner.
In 1989, a U.S. fighter jet destroyed a U.S. satellite by firing a modified air-to-air missile into space from an altitude of 80, 000 feet.
The U.S. Air Force is currently test-flying an optionally piloted supersonic drone over the Gulf of Mexico based on a modified F-16 fighter jet.
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