delighting

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Known for: Highly maneuverable, supersonic light fighter, excellent dogfighting capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

The Pentagon calls it “synchronized proximity maneuvers,” which is what happens when military bureaucrats try to describe dogfighting in space without using the word “dogfighting.”

From MarketWatch • Oct. 30, 2025

Dogs rescued from dogfighting are often welcomed by sanctuaries around the country.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023

A young James Whale directed the talkie sequences while Hughes helmed and designed the dogfighting sequences.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2020

How could pilots navigate these powerful planes—traveling at hundreds of miles an hour—while looking at the cockpit gauges, listening to the radio, evading antiaircraft fire, and dogfighting?

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel