jet bomber

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The Gloster Meteor was the first jet warplane to enter the war, and the English Electric Canberra high speed jet bomber was adapted by the American Air Force as the B-57.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2018

Test pilots of the new planes – Gloucester Meteors, Britain's first jet fighter, the Canberra, the first jet bomber in the world, Javelins, Lancasters, Halifaxes, Sterlings – were heroes.

From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2012

During predawn darkness in the mid-Pacific atomic proving grounds, the B-52 intercontinental jet bomber Barbara Grace roared upwards from Eniwetok Air Base, the big bomb in its belly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Russian men-of-war are far more visible symbols of national power than the barely visible contrails of a high-flying jet bomber or the remote exploits of a spaceflight.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the men around the table were as modern as a jet bomber.

From Call Him Savage by Pollard, John