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jump jet
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An AV-8B Harrier "jump jet"
Noun
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jump
jet
(
plural
jump jets
)
(
informal
,
military
)
A jet
airplane
with fixed wings that is capable of
vertical
takeoff
and
landing
as well as
hovering
, and, in some cases, also capable of becoming
airborne
in a conventional manner by gaining
airspeed
on a
runaway
.
1977
August 15, “
Aircraft: The Marines' Bad Luck Plane
”, in
Time
:
Yet, 24 of the 110 Harrier AV-8A
jump jets
, the British-built aircraft capable of leaping straight up from a carrier deck and then accelerating to more than 500 m.p.h., have crashed since the Marines first bought them seven years ago.
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VTOL
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jump jet
”, in
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