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Recent Examples of trijet
The aircraft was described by the FAA as a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, a trijet wide-body airliner manufactured by McDonnell Douglas and later Boeing.
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Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
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
Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trijet
Noun
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Five tankers laden with cargoes including diesel and jet fuel have u-turned in recent days and are now going to East Asia, according to ship-tracking data.—
Nicholas Lua,
Bloomberg,
9 Mar. 2026
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Dramatic images captured orange flames curling around a domed roof beneath the night sky, as a silhouetted crane directed a water jet over the raging blaze.—
Laura Sharman,
CNN Money,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The Navy Hawkeye, a twin-engine turboprop, provides similar information while operating off US aircraft carriers.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
2 Mar. 2026
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In October 2008, Chris Bretherton lifted off from the coast of northern Chile in a C-130 turboprop plane.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Ukrainian officials report that it is powered by a JT80 turbojet from the Chinese company Telefly, offering greater thrust than the engine used in the Geran‑3.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Jan. 2026
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When the aircraft goes supersonic, the engine functions like a turbojet, with combustion going active to produce high-velocity thrust.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The next day, a United jetliner bound for Japan lost a tire while taking off from San Francisco but later landed safely in Los Angeles.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Feb. 2026
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In 2025, the United States accepted a luxury Boeing 747 jetliner as a gift from Qatar.—
David Shepardson,
USA Today,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Pentagon officials said they were killed in an unmanned aircraft attack on March 1 on Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
5 Mar. 2026
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These tests focused on strength, toughness, and the material’s ability to be shaped and formed into aircraft components.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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Saudi Arabia and the UAE could approach storage constraints within three to four weeks if tanker flows remain restricted, excluding Saudi Arabia’s underground storage capacity, which is not captured in current modelling.—
Amena Bakr,
semafor.com,
9 Mar. 2026
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Already, eight supertankers have loaded from the area this month, putting shipments on course for a record, according to tanker-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.—
Christine Burke,
Bloomberg,
8 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Such reboosts have historically been done by Russia's Progress freighter.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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It was converted to a bulk freighter in 1869.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Mikel Arteta is taking his supersonic.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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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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“Trijet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trijet. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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