Aeronautical Engineering/Jet Fighter Planes

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Expert: - 10/4/2011


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Even though I like to call them Jet Fighters, why has this phrase been reversed to Fighter Jets?, and will it ever resort back to being called Jet Fighters again?

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I call them jet fighters. Originally, a fighter was the term for a type of aircraft, and we had piston-engine fighters and jet fighters.  But even in the Wikipedia article on jet fighters you see the term fighter jets. Either seem acceptable, and I am not sure which is more common.  Jet fighters works for me.
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38 years as research engineer at NASA

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AIAA, NASA

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B.S. and M.S. Aeronautical Engineering - U. of Washington Graduate work Standford U.

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AIAA Associate Fellow (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

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