Sentence examples for jet squadron from inspiring English sources

The flight leader must have at least 3,000 hours of flight time and have commanded a tactical jet squadron.

The RAF career begun at the height of the war absorbed him for more than 30 years after it, taking him to Malaya, where he was a Station Commander during the Emergency of 1950-60, and then back home to Lyneham, Wiltshire as Commanding Officer of the first RAF Transport Command Jet Squadron of Comet T2 aircraft.

Congrats - 1st female commander of RAF fast jet squadron - Wg Cdr Nikki Thomas http://t.co/y2SKrtCm3a pic.tWinger.CommanderyI9Ij Wing Commander Thomas, who is in her 30s and is trained to fly a two-seater Tornado jet, is being coached in gruelling "escape and evasion" techniques to prepare for being shot down behind enemy lines.

Galland, valuing comradeship and seeing the merit in Hartmann's request, cancelled the transfer to the jet squadron and rescinded the order that had taken him off combat operations.

Formed after World War II to keep the public interested in the Navy's aviation programs, the elite fighter jet squadron are essentially show ponies, existing for the sole purpose of pumping up the US military with flying acrobatics meant to remind audiences at NASCAR races and Fourth of July parades that their tax dollars still fund the world's most expensive and aggressive fighting force.

When she set out to persuade the Pentagon to assign new fighter jet squadrons to a base in Cherry Point, N.C., it did not hurt that she was negotiating with Senator John W. Warner, the Virginia Republican who is chairman of the Armed Services Committee -- and happens to be a close friend of Mr. Dole.

The Royal Navy now has a fleet of just 19 warships, while the RAF has been left with eight - soon to be seven - front-line fast jet squadrons.

Two months later he was assigned to Fighter Squadron 51 (VF-51), an all-jet squadron, and made his first flight in a jet, an F9F-2B Panther, on January 5 , 1951

British forces on the islands have been expensively upgraded, with 800 troops, a new military airfield equipped to take heavy transport jets, a squadron of Typhoon fighter-bombers and, at times of tension, a nuclear attack submarine prowling the South Atlantic.

During this month the unit became the RAAF's first jet bomber-equipped squadron when it replaced its Avro Lincoln aircraft with Canberras; in doing so the squadron was built around a nucleus of personnel who had served with No. 1 Long Range Flight.

In 1957 a Filton-based RAF Vampire jet from 501 Squadron piloted by Flying officer John Greenwood flew under the deck while performing a victory roll before crashing in Leigh Woods, killing the pilot.