turboprop

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Recent Examples of turboprop The escalating costs of moving small units of capacity – 15-seat to 50-seat turboprops – have now eliminated any chance of providing flights in thin market routes. Michael Boyd, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025 The plane, a twin-engine turboprop Mitsubishi MU-2B, crashed near the town of Copake around 12:15 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Jack Moore, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2025 The Code of Federal Regulations governs operations under air carriers (large commercial aircraft, including cargo and passenger planes), commuter and on-demand carriers (aircraft with fewer than 10 passenger seats) and general aviation (aircraft including turboprops and miscellaneous jets). Loreben Tuquero, Austin American Statesman, 19 Feb. 2025 Are little turboprops actually more dangerous than jets? Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for turboprop
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turboprop
Noun
  • Between the coast blue, clay pink, or the classic jet black, there’s an option here to suit all tastes.
    Jasmine Grant, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The program said the opposing aircraft broke off the engagement and withdrew from the area, and the jet model involved had not returned to the Chinese coast since.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The company is also promoting a glide variant of its Spear missile, replacing the turbojet with a kinetic penetrator for a lower-cost option.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike most subsequent commercial aircraft, the plane had its engines, four de Havilland Ghost turbojets, molded elegantly into the wing itself rather than in pods attached below it.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Secure, redundant communication systems ensure instant presidential command, while E-6B airborne launch control aircraft can assume control if ground communication is lost, guaranteeing uninterrupted deterrence capability.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The aircraft, known as ATHENA (Army Theater-level High-altitude Expeditionary Next Airborne), is a Global 6500 business jet equipped with a radome and a signals intelligence sensor suite.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Two notable episodes include the Trump Organization striking a deal in April to develop a golf resort in Qatar, the first such foreign deal since Trump took office a second time in January, and Trump's acceptance of a luxury jetliner gifted by Qatar in May.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • So, the pilots need to be proficient at air-to-air refueling, a difficult task with a plane the size of a commercial jetliner like the E-3.
    Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Running a day late, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo freighter pulled alongside the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering more than 5 tons of supplies and experiments to the lab's seven-person crew.
    Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The Cygnus team overcame that problem, however, and got the freighter on track for a one-day-late rendezvous.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Mikel Arteta is taking his supersonic.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The cruise missiles and supersonics leap forward as the swarms line up behind.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • According to Russia's Pacific Fleet, the Marshal Shaposhnikov and the Gremyashchy are currently on a long-distance deployment in the Asia-Pacific region with the sea tanker Boris Butoma.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The mission architecture included OOR, consisting of multiple tanker vehicles launched to service a refueling depot in LEO.
    Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These lightweight screens add to the smooth, streamlined design of the laminar-flow airframe, engineered to minimize drag and improve fuel efficiency.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Depending on mission requirements, the modular airframe can scale from Group 3 systems, weighing 56 and 1,320 pounds, to Group 4 and 5 classes exceeding 1,320 pounds.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Turboprop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turboprop. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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