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Friday, January 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

The Six Continent Club, lithium batteries, more defunct airlines: The pilot takes on a grab bag of topics.
By Patrick Smith

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  • Friday, January 11, 2008 07:51 AM

    Fighter jet vs. Jet fighter

    My candidate for ridiculous press aircraft conventon is "fighter jets" as a description for combat planes in respectable papers like The New York Times ... In short, all fighter planes these days are jets. Too bad the news hasn't reached the newspaper industry.

    But the word "fighter" modifies "jet," so the use of "fighter jet" is not grammatically or technically incorrect because there are other kinds of jets flying around (military bases or otherwise).

    —noodleman Read noodleman's other letters

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