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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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Harris also used Advanced Aviation, which offers aircraft ranging from eight-seater turboprop jets for trips of up to three hours to 18-seater ultra long-range jets.Aubrie Spady, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024
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Mexico would chase down a twin-engine turboprop, according to Scramble, an aviation newsletter.Penn Bullock, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
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The attack in Zhuhai, a city of 2.5 million, took place on the eve of a major air show that is held there every two years and where China debuted a new stealth fighter jet Tuesday.Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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During the rapprochement between China and the United States in the 1970s (which followed the split between China and the Soviet Union), North Korea hosted Soviet naval ships in its ports and allowed Soviet fighter jets to enter North Korean airspace.Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 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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Hardware as varied as air-defense systems, radars, missiles and aircraft packed the grounds indoors and out.Reuters, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The carrier will operate the new flights on an Airbus A320 aircraft with room for 174 passengers.Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024
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New Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg is grappling with a balance sheet strained by years of turmoil and the fallout from a strike, now in its seventh week, that is crippling manufacturing of the company’s main cash cow, the 737 Max jetliner.Julie Johnsson, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2024
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The company has spent much of this year scrambling to cut costs, including furloughing pilots, slashing flights and deferring Airbus jetliner orders.Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
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In effect, this creates a financial bias towards product line consolidations and against airframe innovation.Dean Donovan, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Ideas for radical improvements of airframes are available.Dean Donovan, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Of course not, but the captain has told the wheelhouse to turn the supper tanker.Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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The tanker, however, will remain empty of any nuclear materials during its three-week test run.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 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 21 Nov. 2024.
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