fighter plane

“One was Hawker's new fighter plane the mighty Tempest, whose Sabre engine could unleash the power of 2400 horses.”

The HurricaneStory

“A navy EP-3 electronic reconnaissance plane was damaged in a midair collision with a Chinese fighter plane and made an emergency landing at Lingshui Military Airport on the Chinese island of Hainan.”

Simon & Schuster: Deeper

“Then on September 3, 1916, a German airship, SL-11, was “clawed down in flames” — as Churchill had predicted would happen — by a British fighter plane using incendiary bullets.”

Castles of Steel

“Herr Messerschmitt was parting from Herr Luftfahrt-minister Goring with the sum of four million marks credited to him privately for the development of his fighter plane as a part of Hitler's conspiracy to break the peace treaty of 1919 and rearm Germany with military aircraft.”

The HurricaneStory

“I have flown every operational fighter plane the Air Corps, and later the Air Force, has owned, from the P-47 to the F-106 — with one exception: I never got to fly the F-94, and by the time I recognized that fact, it was a museum piece.”

Thud Ridge

“After the collision of the Chinese fighter plane and the American EP-3E Aries Latin for “ram” reconnaissance plane, Secretary of State Colin Powell, soon followed by President Bush, expressed regret at the apparent loss of life of the Chinese pilot.”

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