turbojet
IPA: tˈɝboʊdʒɛt
noun
- (aeronautics) A jet engine that develops thrust solely from high-speed exhaust gases expelled from a turbine that drives a compressor.
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Examples of "turbojet" in Sentences
- Special features of the turbojet pack.
- His engine was an axial flow turbojet.
- It implies mandatory rocket boost, not turbojet.
- It was essentially a hybrid turbojet/ramjet engine.
- Turbojet, turbofan and turboprop should be included.
- Turbojet train is a train powered by turbojet engines.
- A turbojet train is a train powered by turbojet engines.
- The four turbojet engines are embedded directly into the wings.
- Packs with the turbojet engine work on the traditional kerosene.
- It was soon superseded by the turbojet and remained a curiosity.
- My personal favorite is a reusable supersonic first stage based on turbojet engines, probably horizontal takeoff.
- It is an open two-seater car with undulating side vents, a turbojet-like rear and an aggressive retractable spoiler.
- A turbojet afterburner engine has an expendable nozzle portion which can be jettisoned when the afterburner is placed in operation.
- Dual-propulsion (turbojet and rocket) or hybrid-propulsion systems like Skylon have been developed by British designers since the 1950s.
- The engineering of the jet tech graft made it fairly straight forward for her and her crew to swap it in, replacing the GE turbojet that had to that point powered her Spirit, and many Spirits before.
- The main idea now is to develop an engine which is able to take the aircraft from the tarmac to mach 6+ using basically one engine which combines a turbojet, ramjet, and last but not least a scramjet.
- Jet engines: The turbojet engine, invented in Britain in the mid-1930s by Royal Air Force officer Frank Whittle, was given to the U.S company General Electric GE in 1942 to develop for use in World War II.
- Considering how far the work on scramjets has gotten the main sticking point is a turbojet with the capacity to accelerate the craft to high mach 3 speed at which juncture the ramjet would take over and the turbojet would be hidden in an enclosure.
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