0 a very powerful engine. When fuel is burned inside the engine, hot air and gases are produced and then pushed out of the back of the engine at high speed, forcing the engine forward.
1 an engine that moves an aircraft forward by sending hot air and gases under pressure out behind it
A jet engine fails to start even though its parts are in perfect repair - thus thwarting a hijacker.
I well remember learning what he achieved in 1929, when he patented the idea of the jet engine.
Today the jet engine is a totally different thing from the piston engine made in those factories before.
The revolutionary change in aircraft design brought about by the jet engine, has, of course, introduced new problems in the field of air defence.
Since the beginning of the war, this country has invented radar and the jet engine.
Is it any wonder that aircraft noise has got worse and worse every year since the invention of the jet engine?
The development involved a prototype jet engine to cut noise by half.
One thing on which we did establish our money-earning priorities was the jet engine.
