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An airplane propelled by a fanjet engine;A jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust.

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  • It was a heavy-duty fan-jet, powerful enough to pull the whole town into a faster spin.
  • And he climbed aboard meekly and waited while Hayden guided the fan-jet to the open hatch and shoved it out into the light breeze, following himself a second later.
  • It wasn't a bike in the old gravity-bound sense; the fan-jet was a simple metal barrel, open at both ends, with a fan in one end and an alcohol burner at its center.
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