jump jet

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Recent Examples of jump jet By 2019, those Essex F-35Bs flew twice as much as its predecessor, the AV-8B Harrier jump jet, had on previous deployments. Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025 One thing that Anadolu has that the America class does not is a ski ramp, a holdover from Juan Carlos and the need to support Spain’s fleet of Harrier jump jets. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2023 The crash of a hovering F-35B jump jet on December 14, 2022 led to a freeze on F135 deliveries 13 days later. Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023 It was expected to replace earlier generations of fighter jets like the Air Force's F-16 and the Marines' Harrier jump jets. Joel Mathis, The Week, 13 Feb. 2023 Another issue is that two new F135 replacements might actually have to be developed—one for Air Force and Navy F-35As and Cs, and another for the F-35B jump jet unique F135-600 engine. Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023 Daniel Edmund Duggan, a former AV-8B Harrier jump jet pilot, had reportedly worked for the Chinese military, living in Qingdao. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Oct. 2022 The F-35Bs safely landed using the standard maneuver, whereby a pilot converts the jump jet to hover mode while flying alongside the carrier then slides sideways over the deck before setting down. David Axe, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021 The Marine Corps is on the hook for 353 B versions of the jets to replace the AV-8B Harrier jump jet fighter and 67 C variants to replace Marine Corps F/A-18C Hornet fighters that deploy on U.S. Navy carriers. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2020
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Noun
  • Before becoming the 41st U.S. President, George H. W. Bush received training on the Avenger TBF/TBM torpedo bomber at NAS Ft. Lauderdale from June 16 to Aug. 16, 1943.
    Lauren Ferrer, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2024
  • Several hundred aircraft would assemble, including dive bombers, torpedo bombers and fighter planes, such as the P38 Lightnings, F4F Wildcats, F6F Hellcats, F4U Corsairs and P-40 Warhawks.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • Stratolaunch tests reusable hypersonic rocket plane.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 9 May 2025
  • Ambitious short film chronicles daring flight of X-15 rocket plane test pilot (video) Going to SXSW 2025?
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In the 1960s, the federal government also poured resources into developing a supersonic transport plane.
    Made by History, Time, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Although supersonic passenger aircraft found a niche from the 1970s through the early 2000s with the Concorde, commercial supersonic transport is no longer available for the mainstream consumer marketplace today.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • One of those bombers dropped two massive ordnance penetrators on a nuclear facility in Fordo at 2:10 a.m. local time, Caine said—the first of 14 bombs dropped across Iran.
    Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • It was being dropped from high above the Earth by a B-2 Spirit bomber.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Three — and then five — pyrotechnic jets resembling a peacock’s tail feathers issue from a box with two semicircular sides.
    Ethan Wolin, Sacbee.com, 28 June 2025
  • Rwanda also has been accused of exploiting eastern Congo's minerals, used in smartphones, advanced fighter jets and much more.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The Israeli military said its warplanes, guided by intelligence, hit command centers linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including the Basij headquarters and the Alborz Corps, which oversee internal security.
    Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 23 June 2025
  • Bombs and missiles launched from U.S. warplanes hit nuclear sites at Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz in Iran.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Most people get from town to town by seaplane or boat.
    Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2025
  • As this is the mid-Atlantic’s yachting capital, and an anchorage for caravels, clippers and seaplanes, the spirit of nautical bonhomie is pervasive.
    Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025

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