Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Fly high in San Diego - the sunny Californian city that's home to Top Gun
msn.comGallery: Campsite owner installs James Bond submarine for £40,000 and you can stay in it (Metro)‘If they tried to turn their heads to see if there was an enemy plane behind them, they would get vertigo and probably pass out. ’ The solution was that jets had rear-view mirrors fitted inside the cockpit.
In search of more facts, I set off for the USS Midway, a giant 1,000ft aircraft carrier that came into service in 1945 and was eventually decommissioned in 1992.
Now a museum (tickets from £21), it features all the sexy jets you could wish for – my favourite has a cartoon shark’s teeth painted on its nose – along with thick wire cables placed at intervals.
These, a former fighter pilot who volunteers here tells me, are what stop the jets when they come back into land. The planes have a hook underneath, which has to try to catch the cable – not easy at 150mph.
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