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Recent Examples of turbojet
It was powered by two small turbojet engines and its top speed was only around 200 miles per hour, in the interest of safety.
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Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
The missile borrows its booster from the S-125 anti-air missile and uses an MS-400 turbojet for cruising.
—David Axe, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
Calio was appointed chief operating officer, a new position that will oversee Pratt & Whitney’s businesses that include commercial and military engines, airborne auxiliary power units and turbojet propulsion systems.
—Stephen Singer, courant.com, 14 Feb. 2022
In a turbojet, the air enters from the front and is first compressed (to increase its energy potential) by rotating blades, then mixed with fuel and ignited.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 16 Oct. 2021
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Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
The missile borrows its booster from the S-125 anti-air missile and uses an MS-400 turbojet for cruising.
—David Axe, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
Calio was appointed chief operating officer, a new position that will oversee Pratt & Whitney’s businesses that include commercial and military engines, airborne auxiliary power units and turbojet propulsion systems.
—Stephen Singer, courant.com, 14 Feb. 2022
In a turbojet, the air enters from the front and is first compressed (to increase its energy potential) by rotating blades, then mixed with fuel and ignited.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 16 Oct. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for turbojet
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Previously, the small runway could only handle helicopters and small turboprop planes from Reykjavik and other settlements in Greenland.David Nikel, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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The Special Olympics Airlift was the idea of a former CEO of Textron Aviation, which makes Citation business jets and Beechcraft turboprops, to transport athletes from all over the U.S. to the games.Julie Boatman, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024
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The plane, a U.S. attack fighter jet, has seen combat too many times to count.Jim Clash, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Silhouette of passenger in front of the JetBlue Airbus A321neo aircraft spotted on the apron tarmac docked at the passenger jet bridge from the terminal of Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport AMS EHAM in the Netherlands.Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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The cruise missiles and supersonics leap forward as the swarms line up behind.David Szondy, New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2024
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The Low Boom Flight Demonstrator Project hopes to revive commercial supersonic by reducing a jet’s sonic boom.Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2020
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No information about the aircraft is listed on the website except for its model type, a Pilatus PC-12 NG, which is an aircraft commonly used as an air ambulance.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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Governments around the world have trained eagles to attack unmanned aircraft.Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Videos circulating online appear to show the exact moment when the bird flies into one of the jetliner’s engines.Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
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The long-profitable company’s fortunes soured after two of its 737 Max jetliners crashed in October 2018 and March 2019, killing 346 people.David Koenig and Manuel Valdes, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
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As for the 787s that had already been delivered previously with these out-of-conformance gaps and are today flying around the world — about 980 jets — Boeing studied whether there is a long-term risk that their airframes could age more quickly and potentially fail.Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
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The Boeing 737 was 31 years old, which is considered by experts to be an older airframe, though that’s not unusual for cargo flights.Siarhei Satsiuk, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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Five tanker trucks were initially requested to the scene through an area tanker task force before five additional tankers were requested.Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 16 Dec. 2024
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Oxygen tankers are being delivered regularly to supply the mine shaft, and crews have made progress entering the underground area.Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2024
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The Air Force is in the process of acquiring a new tanker, the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus, which will be more efficient and have more advanced avionics than the KC-10, but the trijet Extender will still have the Pegasus beat on fuel capacity by about 70 tons.Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2022
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Question: Are trijet aircraft less safe than twin-engine or four-engine aircraft? – Andrew, Scottsdale, Arizona Answer:No.John Cox, USA TODAY, 17 June 2018
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“Turbojet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turbojet. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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