In message , BUFDRVR
writes
Surely the first generation of jet fighters would have been the Lockheed
P-80, Gloster Meteor, Me. 263 and others of the same vintage.

I'm sure you could lump those in there as well. There has to be some *formal*
convention where this is spelled out no?

Isn't *he* the optimist!

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