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Unemployed youth should join the Army instead of sitting at home, says minister

The Daily Telegraph 06 Apr 2025
“You don’t need to march up and down a parade square getting yelled at by a sergeant major,” said the former marine, who joined the military aged 19. “You can do anything from engineering on a fighter jet all the way through to being a chef.”.
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How Can You Tell The Difference Between United Airlines' Legacy & Ex-Continental Boeing 777-200ERs?

Simple Flying 05 Apr 2025
The United fleet has an average age of 15.9 years. The airline has 225 widebody jets, all ...
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Would you fly in a propeller plane? Airbus hopes you will

The Daily Telegraph 04 Apr 2025
The manufacturing giant revealed last week that it was working on a propeller model it hopes may one day take over flights currently operated by some of its most popular jets ...That’s what aircraft looked like at the beginning of the jet age.
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Colombia to buy Swedish fighter jets to replace aging Israeli aircraft

The Associated Press 04 Apr 2025
Colombia has announced it will buy up to 24 fighter jets from Swedish company Saab to replace aging Israeli aircraft whose maintenance ...
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Gary Sinise Narrates Documentary About Bob Hope and WWII

MarineLink 04 Apr 2025
Bob Hope and WWII,” narrated by Gary Sinise. Three hundred and fifteen stations are currently scheduled to pick up the documentary beginning in May ... In the non-jet age, Bob Hope logged over 80,000 miles of travel to Europe and the Pacific ... ....
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Colombia Picks Sweden’s Saab JAS Gripen Fighter Jets to Replace Israeli Kfirs

Colombia One 03 Apr 2025
The Colombian Air Force has been evaluating options for months and has been considering several European fighter jets to enable it to replace its aging Kfir fleet and maintain the country’s air defense capabilities.
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$5.6B F-16 purchase plan, a harebrained idea, huge graft plot or both?

The Manila Times 03 Apr 2025
Worse, a number of F-16s were lost over the years due to accidents and aging-related mechanical failures such that Thailand is now exploring to buy instead cheaper but modern jets such as the Swedish ...
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The first of 16 new F-16 fighter jets from the US land in Bulgaria

Times Union 02 Apr 2025
Bulgaria, which joined NATO in 2004, has for two decades sought to update its military’s air fleet of aging Soviet-made MiG-29 jets, but financial problems forced repeated postponements.
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Bay Area-based girls ice hockey team skates its way to national tournament

East Bay Times 02 Apr 2025
Golden State Elite is a youth hockey program for Northern California players from ages 12-18 ... the Vacaville Jets, Cupertino Cougars and San Francisco Sabercats ... of their high school ages,” Manino said.
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From the Archives: The Freedom Bird Flies Again

Stars and Stripes 02 Apr 2025
The children, ranging in age from three months to three years, were loaded onto a World Airways DCS jet in Saigon late Wednesday night [April 2, 1975] and headed away on a 25-hour journey to the ...
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Val Kilmer Death: Why Val Kilmer was the perfect Iceman to Tom Cruise’s Maverick in Top Gun

The Times of India 02 Apr 2025
On April 1, 2025, Kilmer passed away at the age of 65, leaving behind a legacy as enduring as the jet streams his character once carved into cinematic history ... Where Maverick was reckless and impulsive, Iceman was composed and methodical ... .
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Inside £15,000-a-night Caribbean hotel where Spencer Matthews and Vogue Williams are holidaying amid 'rift' rumours ...

The Daily Mail 01 Apr 2025
Spencer is pictured in St Barthelemy in the Caribbean aged six ... And after jetting to the picturesque island of St Barths for a family getaway, Spencer praised his 'incredible' wife, as well as his mum Jane' in a post for Mothering Sunday.
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Airline Pilot Generations Vary to Say the Least

Flying 31 Mar 2025
For me, starting in 1984 at the beginning of a new-hire wave, I had the good fortune of flying with the captains that had experienced the introduction of the jet age.
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2025 NFL Draft: Re-grading every first-round QB pick of last 15 years, from Jayden Daniels ...

CBS Sports 31 Mar 2025
Wilson was both erratic and painfully conservative in two years before the Jets replaced him with an aging Aaron Rodgers ... Jets ... Darnold endured a steeper dip into skittish tendencies for a porous Jets team.
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