How to Use turbofan in a Sentence

turbofan

noun

• The wings would merge with the main body of the aircraft, which has a range similar to that of the turbofan.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 21 Sep. 2020
• Is that reverse thrust coming from the hot exhaust of the engine, or just from the turbofans?
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2017
• The planes will use Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan engines.
  — Christopher Jasper, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2018
• What seems likely to have happened is that one of the Jaguar’s two Adour turbofan engines accidentally ate one of the birds.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 July 2019
• The latest problem in Pratt’s geared turbofan — a fault in its knife-edge seal that led to in-flight shutdowns — is just the most recent in a series of afflictions for the turbine.
  — Benjamin Katz, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
• All that performance needs better cooling, and that’s where the turbofan comes into play.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 4 Mar. 2021
• The third design uses a turboprop engine, has half the range of the turbofan concept, and can carry up to 100 passengers.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2020
• The engine saves a neat 25 percent emissions over Rolls-Royce’s original Trent turbofan.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2021
• The guts of a turbofan engine are complex, but major components include the low-pressure turbine, the high-pressure turbine, the core, and the compressor.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 14 Oct. 2020
• The aircraft was identified as a Fokker-100, a medium-sized, twin-turbofan jet airliner.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2019
• Bladed discs, located in the hot section of a turbofan engine, pull energy from the hot gases of the combustor to produce thrust.
  — Julie Johnsson and Richard Clough, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
• A big part of it is the thrust vectoring nozzles attached to the two Pratt & Whitney F-119 afterburning turbofan engines.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2017
• An airliner-style nose/cockpit protrudes from the front while two turbofan engine pods are slung atop the rear fuselage, resulting in a look reminiscent of the Quinn jet from the Avengers movies.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
• Bullet-shaped with stubby wings and a Williams turbofan engine, the Tomahawk flies low at subsonic speeds to avoid enemy radar.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2017
• To start with, one of the 146’s four engines will be replaced with a 2MW electric turbofan powered by a combination of battery and generator.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• The plane will have three normal gas turbofans as backup as the companies test the green engine for stress, safety, and reliability.
  — Christopher Schaberg, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2018
• This plane is powered by four conventional jet turbofans, albeit small ones.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• One key difference between the two is that a turbofan engine scoops up oxygen at subsonic speeds, while a scramjet scoops it up at supersonic speeds.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2022
• The 20% reduction in fuel consumption new planes have achieved in the past may be hard to repeat, given that the low-hanging fruit in airframe and turbofan technology has already fallen.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• This is nothing out of the ordinary: just the groan of turbofans churning the outside air into propellant thrust so an airliner can ascend after takeoff.
  — Christopher Schaberg, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2018
• Like turbofan engines, scramjets scoop up oxygen from the surrounding atmosphere to use as fuel.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2022
• The UltraOne™ has a two-speed electric turbofan, which provides you with optimal airflow and a refreshing feeling.
  — Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2020
• Jammed behind his headrest was an auxiliary battery unit whose hum seemed impossibly loud, even over the F-35's turbofan engine.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
• Hermeus’s combined cycle engine can work like a regular turbofan or ramjet engine, reaching a speed of Mach 5.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2020
• Unlike traditional turbofan engines, the GTF uses a system in which the front and back end of the engine spin at different rates, allowing it to run more efficiently.
  — Thomas Gryta, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
• With turbofans, the most frequent causes are maintenance errors and metal fatigue.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2018
• There appears to be some heat blur behind the engine, radiating upward, to indicate that the aircraft’s turbofan engine is active.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2019
• The high-bypass turbofan engine uses 16 composite fan blades.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2018
• For larger aircraft, electric turbofans that are vastly more powerful—perhaps up 20MW—will be needed.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• But the biggest difference is range, thanks to Taurus’s more powerful and fuel-efficient turbofan engine.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024