jet liner

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In a press briefing, Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said the payload attached to the balloon weighed a couple thousand pounds, comparing it to a regional jet liner.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2023

"A jet liner could not have stayed airborne at such a sedate rate of speed," he recalled, and this was significantly larger than a Boeing 747.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2021

I suspect doing weather prediction on this scale is much harder than building a jet liner.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2016

A Comet jet liner lumbered down the runway, then jumped steeply into the air, pushed by rocket boosters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tom pointed to a screen in front of him that had a picture of a huge jet liner just entering a landing port.

From Danger in Deep Space by Glanzman, Louis