Finally, our Royal Air Force jet was ready to take us to our destination.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said that both the White House and the presidential jet, Air Force One, had been targeted in the attacks.
Most famous of these, of course is Air Force One, the official jet transport -- though actually there are two Air Force Ones, both modified Boeing 747-400s -- of the President of the United States of America.
The company has shipped its jet fuel to the Air Force, which has tested it in A-10 aircraft.
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Boyd is considered the father of the F-16, an inexpensive, highly maneuverable jet fighter that the Air Force brass resisted with all their might. ( Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ) has since cranked out more than 4, 000 of them).
The Air Force is also testing jet engines using biofuels and had the first successful biofuel-powered test flight just last week.
If the production line were kept open to make stripped-down versions of the stealth jet for Japan, the Air Force might try to buy some more of them for itself in the future.
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On that occasion, a privately-owned former Soviet air force L-39 military jet trainer came to rest on the motorway after going through the boundary fence at Duxford.
But today the government has not given any commitment to deploy both vessels, and it seems quite likely that the nation's huge investment in ships and planes will produce a one carrier "force" with a less capable jet.
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Fischer-Tropsch derived fuels for aviation have been produced recently for the Department of Defense by U.S. based Syntroleum, and have been successfully tested by the US Air Force in a B-52 jet with all eight of its engines fueled by the mixture.
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They requested a show of force by an F-15 fighter jet and AC-130 gunship, which launched warning flares toward the positions high above the commandos, the report concludes.
Mr. Appleton was a qualified stunt pilot whose many planes included a bright red Hawker Hunter fighter jet he bought from the Republic of Singapore Air Force in the 1990s.
"An F1 car is like a fighter jet the technology, the G-force, the quickness, " said Scott Speed, the last American driver to compete in F1 (2007), who has since competed in Nascar.
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In fact, the Air Force is aiming to get half of its domestic jet fuel from alternative sources by 2016.
Much of the Pentagon's fuel goes to the air force, however, and reducing the consumption of jet fuel is much more difficult.
When his MiG fighter jet crashed in Kashmir on May 27, the Indian Air Force pilot parachuted into enemy territory and was taken prisoner.
An Israeli air force engineer even produced a matkot paddle made of fighter jet alloys.
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Imagine if the Air Force had decided in the early 1950s that it would protect jet engine secrets.
By 2016 the air force seeks to use a 50:50 blend of synthetic and ordinary jet fuel for half of its aviation requirements within America.
After graduating from the Air Force Academy in 1973, he had a brief but distinguished Air Force career during which he flew the Vietnam-era F-4 Phantom fighter jet.
It was put in place in 1959, not because of scientific findings but because the then-chairman of American Airlines wanted to force out senior--and therefore expensive--pilots when American converted to jet aircraft.
Some jet aircraft are based in nearby Kyrgyzstan, but another 500 US troops who have been assigned to the peacekeeping force will be on standby in Germany.
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