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turbojet

[ US /ˈtɝboʊˌdʒɛt/ ]
NOUN
  1. an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine
  2. a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust

How To Use turbojet In A Sentence

  • Such turbine engines are also called jet engines and they embrace a family of products: turbojets, turbofans, and turboprops.
  • The White Knight turbojet aircraft climbs over the Mojave desert with SpaceShipOne attached to its underbelly.
  • Today, the turbojets in many British and American aircraft owe their origins to Whittle and the many Lancashire workers who brought it into production.
  • The German introduction of the turbojet engine and moderate wing sweepback to improve high-speed flight performance was matched by Allied developments.
  • It had four turbojet engines with afterburners, and was the first supersonic aircraft with engine pods mounted outboard on the wings.
  • The design and test results of the new type high-subsonic speed submerged and semi-submerged intakes for cruise missile propelled by a turbojet engine have been introduced.
  • First came the turbojet, now obsolete, then the turboprop, which is still found onboard small planes.
  • The experimental result has practical significance for correctly using the twin - rotor turbojet.
  • The Gannet has double in-line Mamba turbojet engines driving two sets of contra-rotating propellers though a single driveshaft.
  • The engines fitted on this particular aircraft were two pistons and two small turbojets (to help it to take off in certain conditions).
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