- A
twinjet or twin-engine jet is a jet
aircraft powered by two engines. A
twinjet is able to fly well
enough to land with a
single working engine, making...
- The
Comac C939 is a
planned long-range wide-body
twinjet airliner family being developed by
Chinese Comac as a
competitor to the
Boeing 777 and Airbus...
- The
Hawker 800 is a mid-size
twinjet corporate aircraft. It is a
development of the
British Aerospace 125, and was ****embled by
Hawker Beechcraft. In...
- the
McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and the L-1011 TriStar. The
first wide-body
twinjet, the
Airbus A300,
entered service in 1974. This
period came to be known...
- fuselage. The 1960s jet
airliners include the BAC One-Eleven and
Douglas DC-9
twinjets;
Boeing 727,
Hawker Siddeley Trident and
Tupolev Tu-154 trijets; and the...
- technology.
Trijets are more
efficient than quadjets, but not as
efficient as
twinjets,
which replaced trijets as
larger and more
reliable turbofan engines became...
-
Virgin Atlantic operates a
fleet consisting exclusively of wide-body
twinjet aircraft from both
Airbus and Boeing. As of October 2024[update], Virgin...
-
Falcon business jet line.
Developed from the
Falcon 900 trijet, the
smaller twinjet has less range. The
Falcon 900
fuselage was
shortened by 7 ft (2.1 m) to...
-
manufactured by D****ault Aviation. D****ault
produce the
midsize Falcon 2000S/LXS
twinjet, the long-range
Falcon 900LX
trijet and ultra-long
range D****ault Falcon...
-
constituting a 25%
reduction in thrust,
compared to 33% for
trijets and 50% for
twinjets. This can be
observed in the
following example involving the
Boeing 747-400...
