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語源

Coined in the late 1940s.^[1]

固有名詞

Jet Age

1. (historical, aviation) A period in history defined by the advent of aircraft powered by turbine engines, and by the social change this brought about.

   Coordinate terms: atomic age, space age

   • 1947 September 3, “Science Evolving Jet-Age Materials”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     Science Evolving Jet-Age Materials [title]

   • 1953 October 11, Bliss K. Thorne, “Faster Air Travel”, in The New York Times‎^[2], ISSN 0362-4331:

     American commercial aviation stands at the threshold of the jet age. That it will make the transition is now a settled issue, and the one remaining question is when.

   • 2010 November 10, Richard B. Woodward, “Book Review: Jet Age — The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World”, in The New York Times‎^[3], ISSN 0362-4331:

     The Nazis had launched the jet age in 1939 with a fighter plane, the avant-garde Heinkel He 178, but were hardly in shape after the war to exploit this technological advantage.

関連する語

• jet plane

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