How to Use turbojet in a Sentence

turbojet

noun

• The plane would need to transition back to to the turbojet to slow down and land.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2018
• At the core of a turbofan is a turbojet, which compresses and heats air to push it through turbines and out the back of the engine for thrust.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2018
• The Harpoon uses a rocket booster to achieve flight, whereupon an aircraft-like Teledyne turbojet kicks in.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2021
• Concerns over the sonic boom first arose with the introduction of the Concorde – the infamous British-French passenger turbojet that could hit a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound.
  — Andrew O'Reilly, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2018
• Hermeus will use its hybrid engine in turbojet mode when taking off and landing, as well as at subsonic speeds.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 16 Oct. 2021
• Drones displayed by Iran have had TJ100 turbojets (or engines that are nearly identical knockoffs).
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2019
• Powered by turbojet missiles, cruise missiles are essentially uncrewed airplanes built to fly a single, one-way trip to their targets.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2021
• To bridge the gap, Aerojet Rocketdyne will need to both increase the maximum operational speed of the turbojet and decrease the minimum operational speed of a ramjet.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 10 Oct. 2017
• This means the ramjet can activate only after some other engine—in this case a turbojet—accelerates the vehicle to a high speed forcing air into the ramjet’s air inlet.
  — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2018
• Modern cruise missiles use turbojet or turbofan engines and typically have ranges of 1,000 miles or so, a limit that is dictated by their fuel supply.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2019
• Buresvestnik uses a gasoline powered engine, probably a turbojet, to take off.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2019
• These temperatures are a fraction of those seen in a typical commercial jet engine; the combustion chamber of a conventional turbojet can reach 2,000 degrees Celsius.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2018
• Unlike traditional missiles that use rocket motors, fly high altitudes, and travel at Mach 2+ speeds, cruise missiles use turbojet engines, fly at low altitudes, and travel at subsonic speeds.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Dec. 2020
• Not surprisingly pilots are generally high-time multi-engine- or turbojet-qualified operators, usually with air transport certifications.
  — Eric Tegler, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024