noun
- aircraft powered by three jet engines
Usage: aviation; plural form
Examples
- The airline operated several trijets on transcontinental routes.
- Trijets were popular in the 1970s and 1980s for medium-haul flights.
- The Boeing 727 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 were famous trijets.
- Modern airlines have largely replaced trijets with more fuel-efficient twin-engine aircraft.
- The airport’s maintenance hangar could accommodate both trijets and wide-body aircraft.
- Pilots needed special certification to fly trijets due to their unique engine configuration.