[
US
/ˈtɝboʊˌfæn/
]
NOUN
- an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine
- a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust
How To Use turbofan In A Sentence
- Such turbine engines are also called jet engines and they embrace a family of products: turbojets, turbofans, and turboprops.
- They have also ordered two versions of Predator B with turbofan jet engines.
- The F - 117A is powered by two turbofan engines from General Electric.
- You can see that the core of a turbofan is a normal gas turbine engine like the one described in the previous section.
- The Hawk 200 is powered by an Adour 871 twin-spool, low bypass ratio turbofan engine from Rolls-Royce.
- The goal of a turbofan engine is to produce thrust to drive the airplane forward.
- The thrust of the two turbofan engines on underwing pylons would be uprated or derated to reflect the number of seats, allowing the same engine to be used on all three versions.
- Thrust is coming from two components in the turbofan.
- It was a very quiet flight, only the whine of the turbofan engines to keep the living and the dead company. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
- Length: 15.27 m (50.1 ft) Wingspan: 10.80 m (35.4 ft) Height: 5.34 m (17.5 ft) Wing area: 45.7 m² (492 ft²) Empty weight: 9500 kg (C), 9770 kg (B) ,10196 kg (M) () Max takeoff weight: 24500 kg (C/D), 22200 kg (M) (54000 lb) Powerplant: 2× Snecma M88-2 turbofans Dry thrust: 50.04 kN WN.com - Articles related to F-16s for Pak could cloud IAF's 126-plane deal: India to US
