- Look up
jettison in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Jettison may
refer to:
Jettison (shipping),
cargo discarded from a ship or
wreckage Jettison (aviation)...
- In aviation, to
jettison is to
discard fuel,
external stores or
other expendable items. The item is
usually jettisoned by
operating a
switch or handle;...
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Jettison is the
third studio album by
Chicago punk band
Naked Raygun,
released on
Caroline Records in 1988. All
songs written by
Naked Raygun,
except for...
- Fuel
dumping (or a fuel
jettison) is a
procedure used by
aircraft in
certain emergency situations before a
return to the
airport shortly after takeoff...
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although floating is not part of the
etymological meaning. Generally, "
jettisoning"
connotes the
action of
throwing goods overboard to
lighten the load...
- Routledge. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-415-44492-7.
Ottomanist historians have
largely jettisoned the
notion of a post-1600 'decline' Ágoston, Gábor (2009). "Süleyman I"...
- two variants, the R-37 and the R-37M; the
latter conceived as
having a
jettisonable rocket booster that
increases the
range to "300–400 km" (160–220 nm)...
-
arranged in a
group of 36
permanent tubes on the top, and a pair of
jettisonable groups of 12
tubes (24
tubes in total) on the bottom. Each
rocket was...
- The Type 91 torpedo's
various Kyoban jettisonable water-entry fin designs...
- An
empty Huey
helicopter is
jettisoned over the side of a
carrier to
provide room on the ship's deck for more
evacuees to land....
