The goal of a turbofan engine is to produce thrust to drive the airplane forward. |
The small, winged AGM-86B is powered by a turbofan jet engine that propels it at sustained subsonic speeds. |
You can see that the core of a turbofan is a normal gas turbine engine like the one described in the previous section. |
They use newer, more fuel-efficient turbofan engines to slash the operating costs of the current generation of gas-guzzling private planes. |
They have also ordered two versions of Predator B with turbofan jet engines. |
The Hawk 200 is powered by an Adour 871 twin-spool, low bypass ratio turbofan engine from Rolls-Royce. |