What is "turbojets"

Usage examples of "turbojets".

Carl closes the airscoop brakes and ignites the rear turbojets, veers off to the right, up again and back over the fence onto the correct side of the highway.

Icy rain splashed down through the canopy, and thunder rolled like turbojets of gunships passing overhead.

His last word was swallowed by howls of repulsorlifts and snarling turbojets that brought a gunship slewing into the gap from the other side of the ridge.

Overhead, the turbojets were spooling up, a high-pitched, spinning whine.

A nuclear-powered vessel, using wings and turbojets, can rise high into an atmosphere, above the worst air resistance, without having to expend the reaction mass of a rocket.

Weighing them down were six powerful turbojets capable of producing 6,000 pounds of thrust each.

From the half-dozen turbojets, thick clouds of heavy black smoke filled the sky.

Whitney J-57 turbojets capable of generating more than 100,000 pounds of earth-shaking thrust.