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Rolls itself focused on using the basic turbo-jet design, in which a gas-fueled inferno spins a turbine, and developed similar systems for generating electricity and powering ships.

Rolls-Royce Powers Ahead in High-Wage Countries Daniel Michaels 2011

Prop-jets - planes with propellers driven by turbo-jet engines - are a different story, Barnett points out.

Ben Sherwood: Wing and a Prayer: How Safe is My Next Regional Plane Flight? 2009

This legislation should be shot through the legislative process on turbo-jet roller skates.

CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2009 2009

Delivered earlier, the lighter ordnance of the turbo-jet can prevail before the tactical situation deteriorates.

Archive 2007-08-01 Richard 2007

Delivered earlier, the lighter ordnance of the turbo-jet can prevail before the tactical situation deteriorates.

More friendly fire Richard 2007

Simultaneous and parallel work on jet airplanes in Britain, based on turbo-jet engine designed by Frank Whittle (1930).

e. Transportation and Communication 2001

First test flight of a turbo-jet airplane (Heinkel) with an engine designed by Hans von Ohain.

e. Transportation and Communication 2001

The airports throughout Soviet Russia are now scenes of activity, with a surprising number of large, modem jet and turbo-jet planes on the tarmac.

The Formidable Reality of Khrushchev's Russia 1960

The Council maintains laboratories for research into problems concerning turbo-jet engines, icing, fuels and hydraulic fluids.

The Impact of Air Transport on World Affairs 1960

Similarly, jet and turbo-jet aircraft engines have de5 new lubricants which are met in many cases only by certain synthetic chemicals.

The Contribution of Creative Chemistry to the Humanities 1957