The group says fifty-six thousand incidents were reported to the F.A.A.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

The F-35 will be used by the U.S.Air Force and also by the Navy to fly off of aircraft carriers.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

The F-22 is what experts call an "air superiority" fighter, designed to defeat enemy jets in mid-air battles.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

President Obama had threatened to veto his own defense budget if the Congress added $1.75 billion to produce more F-22 Raptor aircraft.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

The military is already shifting to a newer, slightly less sophisticated aircraft, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, designed more for attacking targets on the ground.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

It will also be sold to allied countries. Secretary Gates said that as production of the F-35 is ramped up during the next few years, far more jobs will be added in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

His comments reflected what other officials have said that ending the F-22 program is just one part of the effort to shift the focus of U.S.defenses away from what they see as the relatively remote possibility of a war with a major power and toward the types of smaller-scale conflicts of recent years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21