turboprop

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Recent Examples of turboprop Twenty years ago, regional flights would commonly use turboprops to transport passengers between hubs and small-to-medium-size cities. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025 The Gulfstream 1 was powered by two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops. Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2025 Previously, the small runway could only handle helicopters and small turboprop planes from Reykjavik and other settlements in Greenland. David Nikel, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024 The Special Olympics Airlift was the idea of a former CEO of Textron Aviation, which makes Citation business jets and Beechcraft turboprops, to transport athletes from all over the U.S. to the games. Julie Boatman, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for turboprop 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turboprop
Noun
  • Crews lift first pieces of wreckage from Potomac River Salvage crews on Tuesday continue removing wreckage from the Potomac River after the collision of an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter killed 67 people in the deadliest air disaster in more than two decades.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The jet crashed on Friday evening, killing all six people on board.
    Stephanie Ramos, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Next will come Barracuda cruise missiles, Roadrunner autonomous twin turbojet vehicles and more.
    Andrew King, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
  • As ramjets forego moving parts like the compressor and turbine components found in traditional turbojets, the design is more compact, lightweight, efficient, and cost-effective to produce.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • From Belize City, a short, 15-minute flight on small aircraft from local carriers Tropic Air or Maya Island Air connect travelers to San Pedro Airport (SPR).
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 2 Feb. 2025
  • The aircraft in the collision were not invisible to radar.
    Matthew L. Wald, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The first aircraft was a Kenya Airways jetliner with 144 police officers aboard.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The news came Tuesday as crews worked to try to recover the cockpit and other parts of the jetliner from the Potomac River.
    Serkan Gurbuz, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory) icebreaker was attempting to free the freighter Yamal Krechet from ice which was preventing it from reaching the port of Sabetta, in the Kara Sea, according to an expert.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The exact cause of the large freighter’s demise during the storm remains a mystery.
    The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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
Noun
  • Life in Gaza has been sustained by intermittent convoys of water tankers and trucks with cargoes of plastic bottles.
    Claudine Ebeid, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Recommended The Monitor's View A migrant debate cuts across the Americas When one such tanker was hit and destroyed, the battle group helped evacuate its Filipino crew to safety aboard the USS Eisenhower.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Labor accounts for most of the cost of airframe maintenance, so airlines in wealthier countries often send that work to countries where wages are lower.
    Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, China is developing different fighter jet airframe models at a rapid pace, as opposed to the more integrated and modular approach adopted by the West.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025

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“Turboprop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turboprop. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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