Trijet
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A trijet is a jet aircraft powered by three jet engines. In general, passenger airline trijets are considered to be second-generation jet airliners, due to their innovative engine locations, in additi
One of the first trijets was the Boeing 727 airliner. One similar to this was intentionally crashed for a television program.
Dassault Falcon 900EX. The 900 and its derivatives, the Falcon 7x and 8x, are the only trijets in production.
"Straight-through" central engine layout on the DC-10-based KC-10
The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 is the largest and most recent airliner-size trijet produced.
Boeing 727
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The Boeing 727 is an American narrow-body trijet that was developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. After the heavier 707 quadjet was introduced in 1958, Boeing addressed the demand for s
Trijet
…is having the central engine located in the rear fuselage and supplied with air by an S-shaped duct; this is used on the Hawker Siddeley Trident, Boeing 727, Tupolev Tu-154, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, and, more recently, the Dassault Falcon 7X. The S-duct has low drag, and since the third engine is mounted…
A stretched 727-200 of Iberia
Production of the 727
University of the Fraser Valley Aviation department Boeing 727, showing the three-crew cockpit (2015)
Boeing 727 cockpit