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trimotor

a. That has three motors, especially an aircraft with three piston engines. n. An aircraft with three piston motors.

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Trimotor

A trimotor is an aircraft powered by three engines and represents a compromise between complexity and safety and was often a result of the limited power of the engines available to the designer. Many trimotors were designed and built in the 1920s and 1930s, when engine power lagged behind the designers' power requirements.

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Other artifacts include a Ford Trimotor Tin Goose airplane, a Messerschmitt 262 Swallow, a Pullman Railroad car The Manhattan Limited, an old cast-iron bathtub with an outboard motor attached and a weird-looking inflatable raft with sails and a carved Haida Indian totem pole.

I was in luck: a large trimotored Ju52 was circling cautiously to a landing.

One was a monster high-speed trimotored craft, The other was an autogyro, also of rather large size.

The boys were surprised and amused to see a metal-covered, trimotored craft with unusually thick wings and a system of exposed control cables that stretched back to the tail.

As the young detectives hurried toward the trimotored plane, they saw that the pilot was already seated in the cockpit.

Under such circumstances, it was better to look out the open window and up into the sky: there they hummed, the fat Ju-52's, as only trimotored planes or enormous flies can hum in a cloudless July sky.

They ranged from a gigantic trimotored speed ship to small gyros, which could ascend and descend vertically.

It was a big trimotored biplane, capable of carrying almost a score of passengers, and it looked like an old job gotten second-hand from some air line.

A mosquito flew across the front of the microphone, and sounded like a trimotored airplane.