jump jet
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English
1.1
Noun
1.2
See also
1.3
References
English
English
Wikipedia
has an article on:
jump jet
Wikipedia
An AV-8B Harrier "jump jet"
Noun
jump
jet
(
plural
jump jets
)
(
informal
,
military
)
A jet
airplane
with fixed wings that is capable of
vertical
takeoff
and
landing
as well as
hovering
, and, in some cases, also capable of becoming
airborne
in a conventional manner by gaining
airspeed
on a
runaway
.
1977
Aug. 15, "
Aircraft: The Marines' Bad Luck Plane
,"
Time
:
Yet, 24 of the 110 Harrier AV-8A
jump jets
, the British-built aircraft capable of leaping straight up from a carrier deck and then accelerating to more than 500 m.p.h., have crashed since the Marines first bought them seven years ago.
See also
VTOL
References
“
jump jet
”, in
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