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- adjective Alternative form of
twin-engine .
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Examples
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The Irish Aviation Authority said the aircraft — a twin-engined turboprop leased to Isle of Man-based airline Manx2.com and operated by a Barcelona-based company called Flightline BCN — aborted two attempts to land before crashing on the third try.
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His hosts were admiringly described as “probably the nicest and richest people” in town, with five cars, a large motor yacht, and a twin-engined aeroplane of their own.33 In their house he slept on silk and linen sheets, often for twelve hours at a stretch, listened to Beethoven, Brahms and Elgar on the gramophone, made occasional conversation, and tried to regain some of the 30 pounds he had lost since the accident.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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Chris Wilson, 39, from Bury, Greater Manchester, died when the twin-engined plane crashed last week near the airstrip in the town of Bandundu.
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On the horizon, a few black dots quickly grew until she saw that they were actually a squadron of twin-engined, Russian bombers with some fighter planes flying escort.
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The plane was a classic, battered, twin-engined jet.
The Unpublished Writer and His Love Interest (The Painter) David Russo 2010
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There were no interstate highways, and air travel usually meant a DC3 or Fairchild 440 , twin-engined 40 passenger propellor planes that travelled perhaps 300 miles per hour with a tail wind.
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Above her, circling around, was the twin-engined monoplane.
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A force like the one deployed in Helmand should have at least 47 of the twin-engined choppers, according to the Strategic Defence Review drawn up in 1998.
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A force like the one deployed in Helmand should have at least 47 of the twin-engined choppers, according to the Strategic Defence Review drawn up in 1998.
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It turns out after the twin-engined Cessna light plane, ferrying the stars to a party at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Calif., landed safely, the pilot reportedly forgot to essentially set the parking brake.
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