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• n  an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine
• n  a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust

• Inside its slim body is a powerful turbojet engine as well as the rocket motor.
• The glamorous turbojet that flies through the air with such wonderful ease is as helpless on a highway as a bat or a hummingbird.
• To operate, it must first be accelerated to a speed of several hundred miles per hour by an auxiliary turbojet or rocket engine, or get a lift from a conventional plane.

• fanjet
• fan-jet
• turbofan
• fanjet engine
• turbojet engine
• turbofan engine

News & Articles

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• This Weird Plane Was Made By Cold War Britain
  Only 86 Handley Page Victors were made from 1952 to 1963. Originally designed to be part of the United Kingdom’s airborne nuclear deterrent, these were weird planes. Even though these streamlined strategic bombers were powered by four turbojet engines buried in the thick wing roots, which made them look fantastic and enabled them to have up to 35 × 1,000 lb bombs or 1× Yellow Sun free-fall ...
  July 14, 2013 - Jalopnik

Quotes

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• Frank Whittle in Scotsman
  Mr Whittle said before the ceremony: "The introduction of turbojet technology marked a great step change in aeronautics. All our lives are touched by it."