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
  • The Independence Day picnic itself was a festive affair, featuring remarks from President Trump and a B-2 bomber flyover as part of the celebrations.
    WWD Staff, Footwear News, 5 July 2025
  • Fighter jets and a stealth bomber streaked through the sky over the annual White House Fourth of July picnic as the president and first lady Melania Trump stepped out onto the White House balcony.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 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
  • Top 5 Can’t Miss Get a bird's-eye view of the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield from a seaplane.
    Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2025
  • Seaborne continues to fly a single seaplane between the U.S. Virgin Islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix.
    David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Figuring jets of water springing from pools turned oval by perspective, arches also reminiscent of its headquarters seem to burst to life against the skin.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 10 July 2025
  • Funnily enough, the new-to-Amazon film Heads of State starring John Cena and Idris Elba features a big, fat action sequence aboard the presidential jet.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • As sixth-generation fighter programs ramp up, military insiders are divided over whether future warplanes need pilots at all.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2025
  • Honeypots designed to act like flares on warplanes can be spawned off dynamically and unpredictably.
    Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025

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