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n. (fighter plane English)
Usage examples of "fighter planes".
High above and looking down on it all would be three separate flights of fighter planes-F-20s, A-7s, and a few F-5s- providing a CAP over the entire city.
When fighter planes zoomed by overhead right afterwards, Oscar wished he’.
Yes, we've heard that other Iranian military bases reacted as well, and that Iranian fighter planes were flying around on full alert, but they are farther away from international waters and from routine monitoring by Gulf Cooperative Council forces, so we don't know much about those reports.
I said Goering was making the same mistake with his fighter planes designing them for ground support-that the French were making with their tanks.
At the same instant, two Russian fighter planes screamed overhead, providing air cover for the gunships.
Fadda flight was a flight of six MiG-25s, some of the fastest fighter planes in the world.
Her father commanded an aircraft carrier, one brother led a squadron of fighter planes, and the other was skipper of a submarine.
And there were not so many dead for him to bury any more, Colonel Korn pointed out, since opposition from German fighter planes had virtually ceased and since close to ninety per cent of what fatalities there still were, he estimated, perished behind the enemy lines or disappeared inside the clouds, where the chaplain had nothing to do with disposing of the remains.
As with combat between fighter planes, the combatant who first spotted the other usually had the advantage.
He'd had to do it, and had also known afterward that the flight crew in question would go back to their quarters muttering about the dumb old fart on the flag bridge who didn't know what it was like to drive fighter planes, 'cause the Spads he'd grown up with had probably used windup keys to get off the boat….
Then, once we had captured the airbases and got them up and running, Army fighter planes could relieve the Navy's carrier-based fighters.