Air combat mission involving protecting other aircraft during their flight.
1 Calder himself was to lead them: two light cruisers, sixteen destroyers and fighter escort .
2 My saucer and its automated fighter escort approached the flagship.
3 Two days before he had been providing fighter escort cover for bombers over Berlin, and they had lost four planes.
4 A Virgin Atlantic flight from London to New York is being diverted to Canada under fighter escort after conflicting signals about a possible hijacking.
5 The blow by 1,150 Flying Fortresses and Liberators, without fighter escort , preceded a limited land attack by French troops...
6 Four Canadian jet fighters escorted the flight to the unscheduled landing.
7 The bombers were joined by US Air Force F-15C Eagle fighter escorts which flew from Okinawa, Japan.
8 Only two fighter escorts per ship.
9 He turned his attention back to Port Stanley while the dropship approached Sanghelios and picked up its fighter escorts .
10 The Star Destroyer plunged into deep space as the Rebel transport and its two fighter escorts streaked off to safety.
11 The secretary of defense wanted the low-level Navy reconnaissance planes to be accompanied by fighter escorts in their missions over Cuba.
12 The B-1B Lancer bombers and F-15 fighter escorts were in international airspace over waters east of North Korea.
13 Mr Caldera's office approved the photo-op, which cost 35,000 US dollars in fuel alone for the plane and two jet fighter escorts .
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