turbofan
IPA: tˈɝboʊfæn
noun
- (aviation) A turbojet engine having a (typically ducted) fan that forces air directly into the hot exhaust and obtains a portion of the thrust from the turbojet and a portion from the turbojet section.
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Examples of "turbofan" in Sentences
- This example is known as a turbofan.
- The propulsion unit is a turbofan engine.
- Common usage of jet engine is a turbofan.
- Simpler material is in the turbofan article.
- It was the world's first turbofan powered airliner.
- Turbojet, turbofan and turboprop should be included.
- It is an important specification for turbofan engines.
- An acoustical muffler for a turbofan engine is disclosed.
- The efficiency problem is due to the size of the turbofans.
- A turbofan configuration for a gas turbine engine is disclosed.
- Associated Press Above, a V2500 fan disk that is to be part of a Rolls-Royce turbofan engine.
- The new geared turbofan engines also must balance robustness with weight to actually cut fuel consumption.
- Increased engineering and development spending on its new geared turbofan engines caused margins at Pratt & Whitney to narrow.
- Last year, Pratt scored a coup when Airbus selected its geared turbofan engine as one of two engine options for the revamped A320.
- The two companies plan to work together in a new venture that will develop engines for future narrow-body aircraft using Pratt's geared turbofan technology.
- The company, owned by European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. NV, is offering two engine choices: CFM's Leap-X, and the PW1100G geared turbofan from arch-rival Pratt & Whitney.
- Called “one of the most coveted pieces of military technology in the world,” this $35 million remotely piloted aircraft is powered by a turbofan engine and is about the size of a fighter plane.
- Pratt, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has spent more than $1 billion over the past decade developing a new jet engine called the geared turbofan, which uses very different technology from engines offered by GE and Rolls.
- The company invested $1 billion to develop a new jet engine—the geared turbofan—in an attempt to get back into the single-aisle-jet business, but is off to a slow start after being frozen out of Boeing Co.'s plan to refresh its 737 jetliner.
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