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Recent Examples of trijet
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.
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Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2022
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
Each day at noon, French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Falcon flew a solo lap around the circuit in its flagship Falcon 7X trijet.
—Chris Clarke, Popular Mechanics, 7 Oct. 2015
Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2022
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
Each day at noon, French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Falcon flew a solo lap around the circuit in its flagship Falcon 7X trijet.
—Chris Clarke, Popular Mechanics, 7 Oct. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trijet
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That means that, for the foreseeable future, Niccol will be flying to and from the company’s HQ, likely on a Starbucks private jet, in a trip that spans over 1,000 miles up the Pacific coast.Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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One major Boeing jet, the 787 Dreamliner, is manufactured at a nonunion factory in South Carolina.Kate Gibson, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
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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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Measuring about 5½ feet long and equipped with twin turbojets manufactured in-house by the company, the Roadrunner can be kitted out with a variety of payloads.Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
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For any plane hoping to dethrone the Blackbird, its engine needs to somehow seamlessly transition between turbojet, ramjet, and back to turbojet—and Hermeus has already pulled off that delicate piece of aviation engineering.Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2023
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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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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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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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Deliveries of all 737 Max planes as well as freighter models have been halted by the strike.Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Max, as well as two freighter models, the 777F and 767F, are built in unionized plants shut down by the strike.Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 19 Sep. 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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“Trijet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trijet. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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