A jet airliner is an airliner that is powered by jet engines. This term is sometimes contracted to jetliner.
In contrast to today's relatively fuel-efficient, turbofan-powered air travel, first generation jet airliner travel was noisy and fuel inefficient. These inefficiencies were addressed by the invention of turboprop and turbofan engines.
The first airliners with turbojet propulsion were experimental conversions of the Avro Lancastrian piston...
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A jet airliner is an airliner that is powered by jet engines. This term is sometimes contracted to jetliner.
In contrast to today's relatively fuel-efficient, turbofan-powered air travel, first generation jet airliner travel was noisy and fuel inefficient. These inefficiencies were addressed by the invention of turboprop and turbofan engines.
The first airliners with turbojet propulsion were experimental conversions of the Avro Lancastrian piston engined airliner, which were flown with several types of early jet engine, including the de Havilland Ghost and the Rolls-Royce Nene, however these retained the two inboard piston engines, the jets being housed in the outboard nacelles and these aircraft were therefore of 'mixed' propulsion. The first airliner with full jet power was the Nene-powered Vickers VC.1 Viking G-AJPH, which first flew on the 6 April 1948.
The first purpose-built jet airliner was the de Havilland Comet which first flew in 1949 and entered service in 1952. Also...
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