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propjet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | turbo-propeller plane, turboprop |
| Type of | propeller plane |
Examples of propjet
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Heinrich VonGeorge, 45, the man who hijacked a Mohawk Airlines propjet last week, scarcely fits that pattern.
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At Frontier, he has got rid of most of its piston-engine planes in favor of 21 propjet Convair 580s and five Boeing tri-jet 727s.
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After his classes at UCLA, Udvar-Hazy often hung around airports, where one day he was told that an airline was looking for an Electra four-engine propjet.
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Unlike Eastern's Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, his longtime competition, Woolman skipped propjet airplanes and waited for the pure jets to arrive.
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When passengers fill one of the jet planes to capacity, Eastern simply rolls out a second-section backup craft-usually a propjet Electra-to handle any overflow.
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- An airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine
- Turboprop engines are a type of aircraft powerplant that use a gas turbine to drive a propeller. The gas turbine is designed specifically for this application, with almost all of its output being used to drive the propeller. ...
- A propeller driven airplane, in which the engine is a jet turbine rather than piston driven.
