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twin-engine

a. (context of an aircraft English) powered by two engines, one in each wing

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Base, Afterbody and Tail Regions of Twin-Engine Airplane Model with Extra Low Horizontal Tail Locations at a Speed of Mach 0.

Twenty thousand feet below them, shielded from ground radar by a pair of mountains, twelve Tomcats of the Black Aces went to afterburner, their radars shut off as the twin-engined fighters rocketed skyward.

Twin-engine Blinder bombers could deliver their heavy bombloads after running in low and fast.

And a seagoing barge big enough to ship a twin-engined Betty-minus the flying bomb strapped to her belly, mind you.

QT-1 Jayhawk, a one-off based on a common twin-engine jet used to train transport and tanker pilots.

The hunter had flown them out from there in his twin-engine Beechcraft Baron to this vast, remote hunting concession near the Mozambican border that he chartered from the Zimbabwean government.

Just ask Amelia Earhart, the famous woman aviatrix ("Aviatrix" means "deceased person") who in 1937 attempted to fly around the world in a twin-engine Lockheed and disappeared somewhere in the South Pacific and was never heard from again.

John called Michael Archuleta, the private pilot who was to fly the Ramsey plane, a 1972, twin-engine Beechcraft King Air C-90, to Charlevoix, Michigan, and told him what had happened.

A twin-engine aircraft--too large to be a trainer--had made a forced landing inside this canyon sometime in decades past, either because the pilot was flying blind in bad weather, or had run out of fuel, or perhaps windshear had knocked it out of the sky.

A hundred yards away on the port side flying parallel with them he saw a Junkers 88S, one of those deadly black twin-engined planes that had caused such catastrophic losses to RAF Bomber Command in the night skies of Europe.

He was flying a Junkers 88 in heavy cloud, one of those apparently clumsy, black, twin-engined planes festooned with strange radar aerials, that had proved so devastating in their attacks on RAF bombing groups engaged on night raids over Europe.

Twin-engine prop puddle jumpers flew in from the mainland, and private planes.

Strike aircraft, twin-engine Rhinos mostly, grim and squat and angular with their huge radial engines and mottled paint.

From there I bus-stopped a thousand miles to Denver, and chartered a twin-engined Piper from a local firm for the last two hundred to Rock Springs.

A high-wing, twin-engine plane sat on squat tricycle landing gear on the concrete apron in front of the hangar.