trijet

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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. 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
Noun
  • Rwanda also has been accused of exploiting eastern Congo's minerals, used in smartphones, advanced fighter jets and much more.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2025
  • Three — and then five — pyrotechnic jets resembling a peacock’s tail feathers issue from a box with two semicircular sides.
    Ethan Wolin, Sacbee.com, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Trump administration unveils a plan to modernize the air traffic control system The mandate came into effect in 2013 following the crash of a Colgan Air turboprop plane four years earlier near Buffalo, N.Y., which killed 50 people.
    Joe Hernandez, NPR, 11 June 2025
  • The twin-engine turboprop aircraft was headed to Columbia County Airport in Hudson, about 15 miles northwest of Copake, the FAA said.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Key Polish exports to the U.S. include machinery and mechanical equipment, notably turbojet and turboprop engines.
    Lidia Kurasinska, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Next will come Barracuda cruise missiles, Roadrunner autonomous twin turbojet vehicles and more.
    Andrew King, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Deals, a jetliner and lifted Syria sanctions In Qatar, Trump will take part in a second glittering state dinner and seek to strike commercial deals.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • Data provided to the Miami Herald show that the closures last year and an ongoing Federal Aviation Administration ban on U.s. jetliners landing at Toussaint Louverture shows there were less than 180,000 airline travelers to Haiti last year.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Riva’s iconic Italian style will now be weaved into two aircraft in Flexjet’s fleet, under the name Riva Volare.
    Katia Damborsky, Robb Report, 27 June 2025
  • With Operation Midnight Hammer—a complex operation involving hundreds of aircraft and naval vessels, several dozen Tomahawk missiles, and 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrators—America joined Israel’s campaign against Iran’s nuclear program.
    NR Editors, National Review, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • During the recent conflict, the Israeli Air Force demonstrated an impressive capability to reach targets deep inside Iran while relying on its aged Boeing 707 tankers for refueling its fighter jets.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • While some Iranian cargoes are shipped directly from Iran to China, the majority undergo multiple ship-to-ship transfers, often in the Middle East Gulf or the Strait of Malacca, where Iranian oil transported by sanctioned vessels is transferred to non-sanctioned tankers before shipping to China.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • May 9 marks the anniversary of when part of the original Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapsed into Tampa Bay after it was struck by a freighter during a storm.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
  • After learning of the loss of the iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior and the deaths of all 29 crew members from Newsweek, Gord lifted passages from the article and put them to a dreamy dirge: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • The cruise missiles and supersonics leap forward as the swarms line up behind.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2024
  • 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 6 Jul. 2025.

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