There seemed to be no contact with the world apart from the roar of a jet fighter looping Manhattan.
In 2001, Chinese security forces grounded an American EP-3 surveillance plane on the island after it collided with a Chinese jet fighter.
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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.
Beijing recently launched its first aircraft carrier and tested a stealth jet fighter that appears to be more advanced than US defence executives had expected.
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.
Brazil and Russia to build jet fighter and satellite launch vehicles.
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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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The game depicts an Al Qaeda fighter jet, which looks like a stealth fighter, shooting down a procession of French aircraft.
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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.
There is a bit of Baotou in your iPad, your Ford and each and every fighter jet in Iraq.
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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.
Three years later, Russia's fears were confirmed when China unveiled its own version of the fighter jet the J-11B on state television.
On this carrier the runout (the area from where a fighter jet lands to where it stops) is 340 feet.
EP-3 surveillance aircraft with a Chinese fighter jet in April last year which caused the death of the Chinese pilot.
In the past few weeks China has made a splash with progress on an anti-ship missile and a stealth fighter jet.
Following April's midair collision of a Navy EP-3E reconnaissance aircraft and a Chinese F-8 fighter jet, the outlook had been gray.
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