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- noun Plural form of
turbofan .
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Modern airline engines are hybrids, called turbofans, each of which contains an old-fashioned jet engine in its core but develops most of its thrust not by shooting high-speed exhaust out the back (as in pure jet designs) but by reaching forward through itself with a central shaft and spinning a propulsion fan.
James Warren: This Week in Magazines: Bill Clinton Has Really Changed, Right? 2009
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A pair of large engines poked out from the back, their noisy turbofans whining as they slowed.
The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010
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I can see it now, the the turbofans blasting rain over the premiers power suit as the Bunny Skipper slews the gold plated hovercraft up to the steps of parliament.
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Cooroy, so long a refuge for the international jet set of malcontents & eccentrics, hardly turned a hair as the dampened & baffled turbofans slowed, the air cushion deflated and HV Cad settled on her undercarriage.
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The Ecojet has much in common with the Avanti, including rear facing engines and propellers instead of turbofans.
Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Super Efficient TurboProp 2007
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Only after the mid 70s were 737s and DC-9s/MD-80s upgraded to have turbofans 727s were EOLed.
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Again, turbofans were only initially used for long haul, not for most domestic.
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Apesar do seu notorio falhanço, o aerocarro ainda é um conceito bem vivo, e actualizado pelo trabalho do inventor Paul Moller com o seu Sky Car, uma minúscula aeronave de descolagem vertical propulsionada por quatro turbofans que também ainda não passou de curiosidade tecnológica.
O Pesadelo de Voar VI Artur 2006
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I am a imagining something that is a cross between an A380 and next gen C130 but with the turboprops based on something similar to the B777 turbofans might be typical 30 years from now.
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And they were smoke belching straight turbojet propelled – we had yet to see widespread adoption of cleaner burning and more efficient turbofans.
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