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turbojet engine

n. jet engine in which a turbine drives air to the burner [syn: turbojet, turbofan, turbofan engine]

Usage examples of "turbojet engine".

On one, a turbojet engine blasted loose of its mount and tumbled away, bouncing down the mountainside trailing smoke and white-hot shreds of its cowling, and the gunship spun half out of control.

An orange-red flash exploded from the end of a huge J-75 turbojet engine and a deep-throated roar vibrated across Okinawa's Kadena Air Base.

The turbojet engine tore free from its mountings, the stubby portside wing was ripped away like paper.

At zero, the port-side FlightHawk detached itself from its wing pylon and fell two hundred feet while it unfolded its wings and flight controls and started up its small turbojet engine.

Its large turbojet engine released a puff of black smoke every few seconds.

The subsonic AGM-86C cruise missile had a turbojet engine that flew the missile at six miles per minute for 500 miles.

Several minutes after launch, with its battery power halfway depleted, it automatically started its turbojet engine, but kept the power-off glide going until reaching five thousand feet above the western Russian lowlands.

It was a CH-53E Super Stallion which had had its turbojet engine muffled to the point of near silence.

Then, after dropping its booster, the Harpoon's turbojet engine would light off and the missile would accelerate on course toward its target.