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jetliner

noun

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as in jet

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Recent Examples of jetliner In 1998, a Swissair MD-11 jetliner crashed off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people aboard. — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026 JetBlue employees found Sammuel Lackey, 32, sleeping aboard a 2012 Airbus A320 during a routine interior inspection prior to moving the jetliner early Sunday, according to an arrest affidavit by the Broward Sheriff’s Office. — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2026 The Tupolev Tu-104 was a type of jetliner originally designed to transport 50 passengers. — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 27 July 2026 Generating enough force to lift their dense, commercial-jetliner-sized bodies would end up breaking their bones. — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 15 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for jetliner

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Noun

In Hungary, the defense minister said fighter jets escorted three passenger planes Friday through the country's airspace within an hour after each received a bomb threat.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
From counter-drone defenses to advanced sensors integrated into tanks and fighter jets, the technologies transforming the battlefield are also changing, or even expanding, the markets served by legacy defense giants.

— Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of jet

Noun

In mid-October Reliable’s software taxied, took off and landed a Cessna Grand Caravan, a single-engine turboprop plane, at Albuquerque’s main airport while a pilot supervised from company headquarters in California, more than 700 miles away.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2026
The aircraft uses an advanced commercial jet airframe designed for greater speed, range, payload capacity, and operating altitude than legacy turboprop ISR platforms.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of turboprop

Noun

And then the spontaneous cheers and shouts erupted as the aircraft, full of returning troops, lifted off the South Vietnam air strip.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2026
They were told that the plane was blown over by wind, and that the aircraft was parked in its stall when the incident happened.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of aircraft

Noun

The system targets another engineering challenge involving different turbojet designs.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
But then the development of modern high-bypass turbofan jet engines that are 75% quieter than 1960s-technology turbojets eliminated much of the controversy.

— Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 14 June 2026

Definition of turbojet

Noun

Mouthwashing follows five crew members stranded aboard the space freighter Tulpar, which crash lands on an asteroid.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026
While the pic’s storyline is under wraps, the game follows five crew members who are stranded aboard the space freighter Tulpar, where dwindling supplies, isolation and mounting paranoia expose the fractures between them.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of freighter

Noun

In September, Puntland authorities said pirates killed five crew members of the tanker MT Honour 25 before security forces recovered it.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
The tanker had switched off its navigation systems, Fars said, referring to a common practice by commercial vessels trying to obscure their movements in the region.

— CBS News, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of tanker

Noun

Solar panels and antennas are typically the first to tear off, and at around 78 kilometers [48 miles], roughly eight times the height of a passing airliner, the main body breaks apart.

— Leonard David, Space.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Boom Supersonic, a US aerospace company best known for developing the Overture supersonic passenger airliner, has unveiled its first 14,000-pound turbine core, designed to support both high-speed aircraft and natural gas power generation.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of airliner

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