Jet
Compared to rotating wings, due to their high exhaust velocity, jets are comparatively inefficient in hover, but jet engines are compact and this gives advantages when much higher top speeds are needed, such as for fighters.
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Famous quotes containing the word jet:
“I cannot beat off
Invincible modes of the sea, hearing:
Be a man my son by God.
He turned again
To the purring jet yellowing the murder story,
Deaf to the pathos circling in the air.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Gimme the Plaza, the jet and $150 million, too.”
—Headline, New York Post (Feb. 13, 1990)