torpedo bomber

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Recent Examples of torpedo bomber The TriState Warbird Museum will bring in a P-51 Mustang, a fighter aircraft escort to the slower B-17 and B-25 bombers; and a Navy Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, a torpedo bomber, said David O’Maley, president of the museum. Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 3 June 2021 Esper planned to lay a wreath at the site off Palau's coast where a U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bomber crashed on July 27, 1944. Robert Burns, Star Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020 Franzke, who loved to jitterbug as a kid, served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945, flying Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers off the carrier USS Saginaw Bay in the Pacific. Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2020 The efforts have been likened to World War II when GM’s factories were retooled to make tanks, trucks, aircraft engines, shells and even fighters and torpedo bombers. Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2020 See All Example Sentences for torpedo bomber
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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
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

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