He then got a job with the Chicago Herald-Examiner as a circulation slugger, a rough fighter employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors.

Although he is not graced with the subtleties of romantic technique, that's not what an ex-prize fighter is supposed to have, anyway.

* 2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter is released.

The AIM-54 Phoenix, developed for F-111B fleet air defense fighter, had an airframe with 4 cruciform fins that was a scaled-up version of the AIM-47.

Its weapons system, the AIM-54 working with the AWG-9 radar, migrated to the new U. S. Navy fighter project, the VFX, which would become the F-14 Tomcat.

The rebels, led by generals Bento Gonçalves da Silva and Antônio de Sousa Neto with the support of the Italian fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi, surrendered to imperial forces in 1845.

If a fighter is knocked down during the fight, determined by whether the boxer touches the canvas floor of the ring with any part of their body other than the feet as a result of the opponent's punch and not a slip, as determined by the referee, the referee begins counting until the fighter returns to his or her feet and can continue.

* Brewster Buffalo, or Brewster F2A, a U. S. fighter plane which saw extensive service with both Allied and Axis air forces during World War II

This overcomes the limitations of classical control theory in more sophisticated design problems, such as fighter aircraft control, with the limitation that no frequency domain analysis is possible.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

Neither of the Air Force fighter pilots saw anything exit the airliner, either visually or on radar, nor did they see a parachute open ; but at night, with extremely limited visibility and cloud cover obscuring any ground lighting below, an airborne human figure clad entirely in black clothing could easily have gone undetected.

The F-111 was originally intended for a fighter role with the Navy, but this variant was cancelled.

The word " fighter " was first used to describe a two-seater aircraft with sufficient lift to carry a machine gun and its operator as well as the pilot.

The use of metal aircraft structures was pioneered before World War I by Breguet but would find its biggest proponent with Anthony Fokker who used chrome-molybdenum steel tubing for the fuselage structure of all his fighter designs, while the innovative German engineer Hugo Junkers developed two all-metal, single-seat fighter monoplane designs with cantilever wings: the strictly experimental Junkers J 2 private-venture aircraft, made with steel, and some forty examples of the Junkers D. I, made with corrugated duralumin, all based on his experience in creating the pioneering Junkers J 1 all-metal airframe technology demonstration aircraft of late 1915.

While Fokker would pursue steel tube fuselages with wooden wings until the late 1930s, and Junkers would focus on corrugated sheet metal, Dornier was the first to build a fighter ( The Dornier D. I ) made with pre-stressed sheet aluminium and having cantelevered wings, a form that would replace all others in the 1930s.

Savate uses glove colors to indicate a fighter's level of proficiency ( unlike arts such as karate, which assign new belts at each promotion, moving to a higher color rank in savate does not necessarily entail a change in the color of one's actual gloves, and a given fighter may continue using the same pair of gloves through multiple promotions ).

Pure delta-wings fell out of favour somewhat due to poor gust response characteristics at low altitudes ( they get bounced around a lot and so must fly slower and higher ) and advances in high lift devices, however many of the advantages have been retained by use of leading edge root extensions, which act in the same manner and many modern fighter aircraft, such as the JAS 39 Gripen and the Eurofighter Typhoon use a delta wing, often in conjunction with a canard.

Invariably the type is differentiated from other fighter aircraft designs by higher speeds and shorter operating ranges, as well as much reduced ordnance payloads.

Towards the end of the war, the Dornier Do 335 Pfeil could have been an ideal twin-engined Zerstörer fighter design for the Luftwaffe due to its center-line-thrust format, which placed its fuselage-mounted twin engines ' propellers on opposing ends of the fuselage, and potentially allowed much better maneuverability, and did allow dramatically higher speeds ( just over 750 km / h or 465 mph ), than any other twin-piston-engined aircraft of its era, but like so many other advanced German aircraft designs that were actually produced by Germany late in the war, the Do 335 never had the chance to be produced in quantity.

During evaluation, the CR. 42 was tested against the Caproni Ca. 165 biplane fighter, and was judged to be superior, although the Ca. 165 was a more modern design which boasted a higher speed at the cost of maneuverability.

For lower speed operations, such as airliners, modern engines use bypass ratios up to 17, while for higher speed operations such as fighter aircraft the ratios are much lower, around 1. 5 ; and around 0-0. 5 for speeds up to Mach 2 and somewhat above.

Another innovation was air-to-air bombing if a fighter had been fortunate enough to climb higher than an airship.

Kesselring responded by sending in fighter sweeps at even higher altitudes to gain the tactical advantage.

This potentially offers better maneuvrability for a fighter, and higher load capacity with more practical ground handling for a large aircraft type.

When jet fighter aircraft reached still higher altitudes, something similar to a space suit had to be worn, and pilots of the highest reconnaissance aircraft wore real space suits.

First flying in 1935, the Bristol Type 142 caused great interest in Air Ministry circles because its top speed of 307 mph was higher than that of any Royal Air Force fighter in service.

GM-1 was used on a number of modifications of existing fighter designs in order to counter the increasing performance of Allied fighters at higher altitudes.

As aircraft flew higher and faster, the need for protection from the elements led to the enclosure or shielding of the gun positions, as in the " lobsterback " rear seat of the Hawker Demon fighter.

The idea was to create a new fighter derived from the Fw 190 for higher altitudes.

Some fighter aircraft also used water injection to allow higher boost in short bursts during dogfights.

By this time however, the new generation of advanced Soviet fighter aircraft ( such as the Yak-9 or La-5 of the La-5FN version ) and improved battle field tactics were taking an ever higher toll of the overworked veteran Luftwaffe pilots.

The beginning of the Battle of Arras in early April meant a higher number of targets, with Jasta 11 logging 89 claims for aircraft destroyed in April ( from a total of 298 made by all German fighter units for the month.

This fighter, the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, became the first American jet fighter to score a kill.

In every round each fighter would have their high points, and every round became difficult to score.

The game received very positive reviews, obtaining a 89 / 100 score according to Metacritic, including 8. 9 / 10 by IGN (" the best weapons-based fighter on PlayStation ") and 8. 3 / 10 by GameSpot (" a great fighting game with its share of flaws ").

The greatest Soviet fighter ace of World War II was Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub, who scored 62 individual aerial victories from 6 July 1943 to 16 April 1945, the top score for any Allied fighter pilot of World War II.

He engaged an enemy fighter, but failed to score any hits and nearly collided with it instead.

In March 1945, Hartmann, his score now standing at 336 aerial victories, was asked a second time by General Adolf Galland to join the Me-262 units forming to fly the new jet fighter.

The first of three out of Germanys top four night fighter aces to die during the month, his score stands at 44, all at night, when he is killed.

German night fighter ace Hauptmann Hans-Dieter Frank dies in a collision with another night fighter over Hanover late on the 27th ; his score stands at 55 kills at his death.

* August 14 – Flying a P-38 Lightning fighter of the 27th Fighter Squadron, Lieutenant Elza Shaham becomes the first U. S. Army Air Forces pilot to score an aerial victory in Europe during World War II when he shoots down a German Focke Wulf Fw 200C-3 Condor.

* February 22-During the Shanghai Incident, three Imperial Japanese Navy Nakajima A1N2 fighters from the aircraft carrier Kaga score the first air-to-air kill in Japanese history, shooting down a Nationalist Chinese Boeing fighter piloted by an American volunteer.

* May 20 – U. S. Air Force Captain James Jabara becomes the first fighter ace to score his five victories in a jet ( an F-86 Sabre ) against jets ( Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s ).

Matches are sometimes decided by the best of three falls — the first fighter to score two points wins.

Although many of its aircraft were as unsuccessful economically as they were brilliant from a design standpoint, the company managed to score several ' hits ', amongst them the FK-58 single-seat monoplane fighter, the FK-50 twin-engine passenger transport and the FK-41, built in England under licence by Desoutter.

IGN gave the game a score of 7 out of 10 in 1996, by which time it was seen as slow and " not as impressive " as the more recent Tekken 2, though they praised Toshinden for important innovations to the fighting game genre, such as taking " the fighter into true 3-D " and " one little move " that " changed the fighter forever.

At age 19, Belfort became the youngest fighter to ever score a victory inside the octagon.

Randleman's pace slowed down considerably after the liver kick, which ultimately helped Rutten score judges ' points by being the more active fighter.

By default setting, the first fighter to score seven points wins the match.

In boxing, each of the three judges keep score ( round by round ) of which fighter he / she feels is winning ( and losing ).

Regardless of whether his score is 25, or 23 victories, he is still the leading American fighter ace to serve exclusively in any foreign air force.