jets
Winnipeg Jets Forward Barron Receives 75-plus Stitches After Skate to Face
LAS VEGAS—Winnipeg Jets forward Morgan Barron took a skate to his face Tuesday night, requiring more than 75 stitches, but he returned to the ice less than a period later. Barron was injured in the first period during a big scramble in front of the Vegas Golden Knights’ net in Game 1 of the teams’ […]
Poland to Be First NATO Member to Give Ukraine Fighter Jets
WARSAW, Poland—Poland said Thursday it plans to give Ukraine about a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets, which would make it the first NATO member to fulfill Kyiv’s requests for warplanes to defend itself against the Russian invasion. Warsaw will hand over four of the Soviet-made warplanes “within the next few days,” President Andrzej Duda said, and […]
Aaron Rodgers Says He Intends to Play for Jets
Four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers says that he intends to play for the New York Jets next season and that the teams are just trying to figure out compensation. Meanwhile, in World Cup news, a union has petitioned FIFA calling for equal pay between the men’s and women’s World Cup purse amounts.
Poland Ready to Give MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Ukraine but Only via NATO
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Wednesday that Poland is prepared to make its MiG-29 fighter jets available to Ukraine but only via NATO as a whole and not by Warsaw independently, as the move carries security risks. Poland’s Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jets have the potential for quick deployment in Ukraine as its pilots are […]
Poland Will Not Send Its Fighter Jets to Ukraine Amid Russia Conflict: Official
Poland’s military has not and won’t send its fighter jets to Ukraine to support the country’s military against Russia, said a deputy foreign minister. Marcin Przydacz, the deputy minister, told Radio Zet that “we will not open our airports and Polish planes will not fight over Ukraine … Polish planes will not fight over Ukraine.” […]
US Gives Poland ‘Green Light’ to Send Fighter Jets to Ukraine: Secretary of State
Poland, a NATO member, has been given the “green light” from the United States to send fighter jets as part of military aid to support Ukraine in its defense against the Russian invasion, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday. “That gets a green light,” Blinken said in an interview with CBS News’ “Face the Nation” when asked whether […]
Jets’ Knapp Dies After Being Struck by Car While Biking
NEW YORK—New York Jets assistant coach Greg Knapp died Thursday of injuries suffered in an accident when he was struck by a car while riding a bicycle Saturday near his home in California. He was 58. Knapp’s family released a statement through the team that the longtime NFL assistant coach died at 2:32 p.m. EDT. […]
US Air Force to Send Dozens of F-22 Fighter Jets to the Pacific Amid Tensions With China
The United States Air Force is sending more than two dozen F-22 stealth fighters to an exercise in the western Pacific this month, an unusually large deployment of the powerful jets that analysts say sends a strong message to a possible adversary in China. Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii this week said approximately 25 F-22s […]
2 Jets Collide After Landing in Frankfurt, No One Injured
BERLIN—Authorities say a collision between two passenger jets on the tarmac at Frankfurt Airport caused damage but left no one injured. The Korean Air Boeing and Air Namibia Airbus planes hit each other shortly after both landed at the airport on Nov. 16 evening. News agency dpa reported that the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft […]
Supersonic jets preparing for takeoff by next year
New supersonic jets will break the sound barrier and people will be able to get to their destinations in half the time. Blake Scholl, the CEO and founder of Boom, spoke about how supersonic jets are shaped differently,”Totally different shape, the wings are different, they are sort of triangular in shape, it’s called a delta […]
Boeing’s largest Dreamliner jet takes first test flight
Boeing’s 787-10 took its first test flight. It’s the largest of Boeing’s three Dreamliner jets. The 787-8, 787-9, and now the 787-10 are all built from carbon fiber composite materials. This is just the start of a series of test flights that the 787-10 needs to have before going to market. Boeing released its biggest […]
US maintains carrier presence in the South China Sea
The USS Carl Vinson on Thursday and Friday (March 2-3) led a carrier strike group in waters some 400 nautical miles east of China’s Hainan Island and northeast of the Paracels, the island chain occupied by Beijing since it seized control from Vietnam in the 1970s. Some 30 fighter jets, helicopters and other aircraft took […]
Trump pledges to maintain “12-carrier navy”
President Trump was in Virginia to tour the U.S.’s newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford. In his speech Trump introduced plans to rebuild the US navy. “In these troubled times, our Navy is the smallest it’s been since World War I. That’s a long time ago. In fact, I just spoke with Navy and […]