Sentences with phrase «of military jets»

Steal one of the military jets and take - off.

His use of military jets for international travel, on which his wife, Betty, joined him, cost taxpayers more than $ 500,000, the outlet reported.

It also contains some of the year's best sentences: «I heard the sonic rip of a military jet, like a giant trowel being dragged through wet concrete, but saw only blue above, a raw and saturated blue that seemed cut from an inner wedge of sky.»

Not exact matches

One thing (prop planes) led him to another (corporate jets) and then to another (surplus military jets), culminating in 2012 with the founding of Draken International, a Lakeland, Florida, military contractor that operates one of the largest fleets of privately owned fighter jets in the world.

U.S. military fighter - attack jets, bombers and drones have dropped more than 67,000 bombs since the 2014 start of Operation Inherent Resolve, the Defense Department's mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, according to information provided by Air Forces Central Command.

The price the Czech military paid for each of its L - 159 ALCA jets.

California - based Cubic Corp. provides a lot of information technology to the US military, including the Cubic P5 Combat Training System for the F - 35 fighter jet.

The US and South Korea militaries frequently train together, but this year's version of an annual exercise, which began Monday and features participation of a record 24 stealth jets, is sure to give North Korean leader Kim Jong Un chills.

Tom Price had cost taxpayers more than $ 1 million between his use of private planes for domestic travel and military jets for recent trips to Africa, Europe, and Asia, Politico reported.

Hooper's announcement was welcomed at the air show, where U.S. companies are showcasing a wide range of military equipment, including Lockheed's F - 35 stealth fighter jet and its CH - 53K heavy - lift helicopter, and Boeing Co's CH - 47 Chinook twin - rotor helicopter.

U.S. Lieutenant General Charles Hooper, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, announced the change during an interview at the ILA Berlin Air Show, where Lockheed Martin Corp, Boeing Co and U.S. companies are showcasing helicopters, fighter jets and other military equipment.

The exercises are, in part, to show off the latest mass murdering «product» of America's military industrial complex, the USF - 22 Raptor stealth fighter jet.

The power that Israel wields over our Democracy is evident in the miss - appropriation of wealth, while our children are treated to a public education not worthy of circus animals, Israel has our defense industry pumping out fighter jets at 350 million each, and it's no surprise they have the most powerful military on earth.

Can you imagine how much we could cut the military budget if we didn't have to order thousands of armored vehicles, big jets and other types of «snooping» aircraft??

The military base is around 15 km north of Newcastle, NSW, where the Jets are based.

Trump confirmed sales of 12 sophiscated fighter jets to Nigeria, noting that he has removed embargo on the sales of military weapons to the country.

As I am sitting here writing this contribution at 8:50 in the morning, I can already hear signs of the relentless fighting that has been going on for over ten days around Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem: Soldiers shooting tear gas canisters, military jets are flying over the area, ambulances rushing to the scene and hundreds of impatient drivers waiting to cross the area honking without let - up.

The lives of British troops will be put at «considerable risk» if HMS Ark Royal and the Harrier jump jet are scrapped, senior military figures have warned.

«Furthermore, the timing of this fictional and imaginary report is to halt or frustrate the sale of Tucano jets to Nigeria, at a time the Nigerian Government has reached advanced stages in actions over the contract with the United States Government for the purchase of 10 Tucano jets to assist the military battle terrorism in the country.

«The area, even 20 miles from here, which is a hop, skip and a jump for a C - 130 or drone or pointy - nosed jet... that area 20 miles from here along the shoreline is in the military operating area of this base.»

Ready for his big moment, Donald Trump swept into Washington on a military jet today and quickly set to building better ties to the Republican Congress as he kicked off three days of inaugural festivities.

Members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari committed an «impeachable offence» by authorising the purchase of $ 462m jets for the military without appropriation by the National Assembly.

Forty - eight hours after President Muhammadu Buhari directed the Military High Command to ensure the end of Boko Haram in the next three months, Nigerian Airforce fighter jets recently deployed to the North East, have commenced air bombardments...

President Buhari was said to have arbitrarily approved the sum of $ 496 million for the purchase of Super Tucano fighter jets for the Nigerian Military without consent of the National Assembly.

Neither of the new carriers will be used by British military jets until at least 2020 and one could be mothballed and possibly sold under future options.

The F - 35 was billed as a fighter jet that could do almost everything the U.S. military desired but has turned out to be one of the greatest boondoggles in recent military purchasing history

Sonic booms have caused alarm and damage when they have been produced in isolated cases by supersonic military jets flying over thinly populated areas; to allow a new fleet of booming supersonic transports to pass over cities at low altitudes during operations near metropolitan airports is clearly impossible.»

He has also collected many tales of survival, including the time parasitic nematodes burrowed into his intestines, and the time his appendix ruptured on a lonely tributary of the Amazon and a Peruvian military jet flew to the rescue.

Yet in a reminder of the risks, some military jets did encounter ash last week and sustained engine damage.

Then I'll catch an hour of sleep before boarding a 2 a.m. flight on a military cargo jet back to New Zealand — December 21, last flight before Christmas.

The L - 29 jet (acquired from the Ukrainian military) is one of the few planes capable of burning biodiesel at present, thanks to a built - in fuel warming system.

If the US military increases its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there will be no direct benefit to the nation's armed forces, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

Peter Ho - Sun Chan's entry in the genre of Chinese military epics, The Warlords (Magnolia) stars Jet Li as General Pang, the sole survivor of a military massacre engineered by a rival, who held back his forces purposely in the complicated chess of game of power played by the royal advisors.

Through the persistent efforts of dignified Col. Bullard (played by Terrence Howard in Richard Widmark mode) who pressures military brass stateside to deploy the segregated unit, they advance to escorting grateful bomber crews, dogfighting in technically advanced P - 51s, and eventually confronting German jet aircraft in a decisive battle.

Below are some highlights from the above linked analysis: Company Description: General Dynamics is the world's fourth largest military contractor and also one of the world's biggest makers of corporate jets.

It's a subject matter that is often overlooked in favor of the overused military fare, and why not, who doesn't love the idea of using fighter jets and tanks?

There's a great variety in themes, and each stage is brimming with detail, from the Mega Chopper fish that rampages through the water in Seaside Hill, the military jets that dart around the After Burner stage, and the airship filled skies of Rogue's Landing.

Months of pre-production reporting surely shaped their travels — Ford to Indonesia's palm oil plantations and razed forests (along with a ride in a converted military jet that now sips air samples for NASA), Cheadle to Texas's drought zone and churches, Friedman to the drought - scorched Middle East and Syria's border.

In the latest round of complications for the Pantego Wind Energy Project, U.S. military officials in Wayne County have disclosed that the 49 - turbine wind farm would imperil the daily bombing runs of low - flying fighter jets at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.

Harper Government Guts Environment Programmes Canada's Stephen Harper government is spending more than 60 billion dollars on new military jets and warships while slashing more than 200 million dollars in funding for research and monitoring of the environment.

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

If the services are indeed to use alternative fuels in tactical weapon systems, these fuels must be able to substitute for one or more of the three petroleum - based distillate fuels that currently support the majority of military operations: the two military jet fuels, JP - 8 and JP - 5 («JP» stands for «jet propellant»), and naval distillate (F - 76).

Atmospheric processes had key implications in military terms, so that it was deemed necessary to understand them as thoroughly as possible, and the properties and behaviour of infra - red radiation came under particular scrutiny, given that if missiles were somehow able to home in on hotspots such as jet exhausts they could seek and destroy such things.

If the US military increases its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there will be no direct benefit to the nation's armed forces, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

Yes, this is not the world of highly processed foods and things, of jet - set travel, of massive militaries that travel around the world continuously.

Energy subsidies today operate more like crop supports than like the demanding military procurement policies that delivered jet engines, microchips, and a suite of other core technologies now enabling blockbuster products like Apple's iPhone.

After graduating from university I joined the RAF as a pilot and flew a number of military aircraft (single piston, single turbo prop, fast jet, twin turbo prop, heavy jet) and my last flying tour was on the Boeing E-3D AWACS.

Two - year degree or certificate from an accredited two - year college, university or technical school in aircraft maintenance or a related field OR equivalent military training AND five years of directly related experience in maintaining corporate jet aircraft.

Two - year degree or certificate from an accredited two - year college, university or technical school in aircraft maintenance or a related field OR equivalent military training AND ten years of directly related experience in maintaining corporate jet aircraft.

Boeing, Wichita, KS and Oklahoma City • OK 1990 — 1999 Engineer / Senior Engineer — Manufacturer of Transport Jet Aircraft Successfully completed numerous assigned programs and positions that included commercial aircraft production engineering support, post-production military aircraft engineering support, and mission avionics hardware and software engineering support.