Word: dogfighting
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Near by bearded Mohammed Sharif was leaving the village mosque after morning prayer when he looked up and saw the French-built Mystères in a dogfight with U.S.-made F-86 jets of the Pakistan air force. With peasant wisdom Sharif decided, "The Indians must be losing in Kashmir. Now they are trying to bother us down here." He urged the young men of the village to arm themselves with clubs and search through the cane and cornfields for downed Indian pilots...
They were attacked by four MIGs. Although the ensuing dogfight was too fast and furious for the U.S. pilots to make positive identification, the MIGs almost certainly belonged to the Chinese Communists rather than the North Vietnamese. When the battle was over, one Phantom jet was missing, though the Pentagon refused to confirm the loss officially. As for the MIGs, they beat a hasty retreat in the direction of Hainan...
...strange object had appeared on the radar screen. After a moment, the pilot added that the object had landed on the wing. Just then Santa Claus burst forth from the cockpit and chortled down the aisle, dispensing good cheer to all. Santa was actually taking part in a fierce dogfight for mastery of the sky on the world's most heavily traveled aerial freeway. More than 1,800,000 passengers flew on the 347-mile corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1963, some quarter of a million more than on the second-place New York-Boston...
When it comes to fares and equipment, major U.S. airlines are so much alike that they must constantly maneuver for competitive advantage by offering some extra touch. They have tried champagne, caviar and credit, but the latest dogfight in the skies is over a rapidly spreading innovation that promises to change the whole character of flights: movies and TV shows in the air. In-flight entertainment, which was used by only two airlines only a few months ago, is causing more excitement in the industry than anything since...
Trailing by only a half a length, Cornell's time was also faster than the Crimson's. Conditions are never the same, however, and the Yale-Cornell contest was a dogfight while the Crimson varsity, racing more against its own performance than Navy, was never seriously threatened...