" also from SGN, includes the same frenetic action, but set in the jet age, rather than World War II, like "Skies.

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In Hargeisa, where 50, 000 died during the war of re-independence, a Somali MiG jet used to bomb the city sits atop a poignant memorial.

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After all, it was the Pentagon that gave an early boost to computers during World War Two, and then helped spawn innovations such as jet engines, lasers and digital networking in the postwar period.

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Concorde was an engineer's delight: it took the jet-bomber technologies that had evolved at the end of the second world war and pushed them to the frontiers of the possible, or indeed beyond the frontiers, given that the aircraft's initial prototype could not have crossed the Atlantic with a full passenger load.

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Nazi aerospace engineers pioneered the jet engine and their early work on rockets laid the foundations for the post-war space programs of both the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Once married to Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, Bianca Jagger has evolved from '70s jet-set party girl to social activist championing a range of human rights and opposing war.

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During the Cold War, it poured billions of dollars into the development of new technologies such as jet engines, nuclear power and lasers.

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Mastering original jet fighter technology is a challenge and learning about one of the hottest battles of the Cold War makes it a simulation worth flying.

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He was sent to Tomsk in Siberia to interview an out-of-work ballistics missiles expert, was ambushed in a field outside Osijek, Croatia when war broke out in Yugoslavia and undercover in Russia, tried to buy a MiG fighter jet from an arms dealer.

BBC: Jeremy Vine