A trijet is a jet aircraft powered by three jet engines. In general, passenger airline trijets are considered to be second-generation jet airliners, due...
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of trijet aircraft. Boeing 747-300 Trijet – downsized 747 to compete with the DC-10 and L-1011, changed to four engines Blended Wing Body Trijet – proposed...
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serpentine inlet) is a type of jet engine intake duct used in several types of trijet aircraft. In this configuration, the intake is in the upper rear center...
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Dassault Falcon 900 (category Trijets)
Falcon 900, commonly abbreviated as the F900, is a French-built corporate trijet aircraft made by Dassault Aviation. The Falcon 900 is a development of the...
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the McDonnell Douglas company in the 1990s. It was first conceived as a trijet larger than the MD-11, then stretched to a quadjet airliner. It was to be...
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canceled Boeing 747-300 Trijet – high-efficiency trijet version of the Boeing 747-200, canceled Boeing 777-100/777 trijet – the original proposed version...
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a member of its Falcon business jet line. Developed from the Falcon 900 trijet, the smaller twinjet has less range. The Falcon 900 fuselage was shortened...
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Boom XB-1 (category Trijets)
The Boom XB-1 "Baby Boom" is a one-third-scale trijet supersonic demonstrator designed by Boom Technology (dba "Boom Supersonic") as part of development...
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McDonnell Douglas sticking with their existing trijet configuration, Airbus (which never produced a trijet aircraft) and Boeing worked on new widebody twinjet...
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Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (category Trijets)
(pronounced "El-ten-eleven") is an American medium-to-long-range, wide-body trijet airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation. It was the third wide-body airliner...
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2000S/LXS twinjet, the long-range Falcon 900LX trijet and ultra-long range Dassault Falcon 7X/8X trijets. The first Falcon 20 took off on its first flight...
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Dassault Falcon 50 (category Trijets)
Falcon 50 is a French super-midsize, long-range business jet, featuring a trijet layout with an S-duct air intake for the central engine. It has the same...
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wide-body airliner, the four-engined, partial double-deck Boeing 747. New trijet wide-body aircraft soon followed, including the McDonnell Douglas DC-10...
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McDonnell Douglas MD-11 (category Trijets)
December 7 and it entered service on December 20, 1990. It retains the basic trijet configuration of the DC-10 with updated GE CF6-80C2 or PW4000 turbofan engines...
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Boeing 747 (section 747 trijet)
and SOFIA airborne observatory. Initial competition came from the smaller trijet widebodies: the Lockheed L-1011 (introduced in 1972), McDonnell Douglas...
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Boeing 727 (category Trijets)
9, 1963, and entered service with Eastern on February 1, 1964. The only trijet aircraft to be produced by Boeing, the 727 is powered by Pratt & Whitney...
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for trijets and 50% for twinjets. This can be observed in the following example involving the Boeing 747-400 quadjet, McDonnell Douglas MD-11 trijet, and...
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Yakovlev Yak-40 (category Trijets)
NATO reporting name: Codling) is a regional jet designed by Yakovlev. The trijet's maiden flight was in 1966, and it was in production from 1967 to 1981....
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twin-engined 767 and quad-engined 747, and to replace aging DC-10 and L-1011 trijets. Developed in consultation with eight major airlines, the 777 program was...
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variant. Its closest competitors were the smaller McDonnell Douglas MD-11 trijet and Airbus A340 quadjet. It has been superseded by the stretched and improved...
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subcontractor supplying parts for the company's newest aircraft, the DC-10 trijet, during the early 1970s. He died on January 17, 1999, at age 81 in San Diego...
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McDonnell Douglas DC-10 of Continental Airlines is an example of a Trijet configuration...
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Hawker Siddeley Trident (category Trijets)
produced by Hawker Siddeley. In 1957, de Havilland proposed its DH.121 trijet design to a British European Airways (BEA) request. By 1960, de Havilland...
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McDonnell Douglas DC-10 (category Trijets)
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is an American trijet wide-body aircraft manufactured by McDonnell Douglas. The DC-10 was intended to succeed the DC-8 for...
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Dassault Falcon 7X (category Trijets)
Featuring an S-duct central engine, the 7X, 8X and the Falcon 900 are the only trijets still in production, as of 2024[update]. Dassault launched the FNX at the...
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total of 689 examples, it is the first of the Cessna Citation family. The trijet Dassault Falcon 50 made its first flight on 7 November 1976. The 40,000 lb...
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Douglas / McDonnell Douglas Embraer Ilyushin Tupolev Engine number Twinjets Trijets Trimotors Four-engined jet aircraft Range Jet airliners Regional airliners...
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to phase out older aircraft, especially its trijets, and replace them with newer twin-jet models. The trijet Boeing 727 was replaced in 2013 with the twin-jet...
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under the same name; of these, both the smaller Falcon 10 and the larger trijet Falcon 50 were direct derivatives of the Falcon 20. Initially known as the...
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Tupolev '73' (category Trijets)
The Tupolev '73', (samolyot 73), was a Soviet trijet medium bomber of the late 1940s. It lost out to the Ilyushin Il-28 'Beagle'. The Tupolev OKB continued...
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