The air turborocket is a form of combined-cycle jet engine. The basic layout includes a gas generator, which produces high pressure gas, that drives a...

air in aerospace engineering is compressed air taken from the compressor stage of a gas turbine, upstream of its fuel-burning sections. Automatic air...

an air inlet which includes inlet guide vanes, a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine (that drives the compressor). The compressed air from...

different types of air turborockets. The various types generally differ in how the gas generator section of the engine functions. Air turborockets are often referred...

and is capable of running statically (that is, it does not need to have air forced into its inlet, typically by forward motion). The best known example...

burnt. In addition a condenser isn't required, giving a weight saving. Air turborocket Compressor map Hydrogen-cooled turbo generator Intercooler Sloop, John...

An air-start system is a power source used to provide the initial rotation to start large diesel engines and gas turbines. Compared to a gasoline (petrol)...

airbreathing jet engine that requires forward motion of the engine to provide air for combustion. Ramjets work most efficiently at supersonic speeds around...

which the engine generates thrust because it increases the momentum of the air passing through it. Thrust depends on two things: the velocity of the exhaust...

the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2019-11-02. "Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - Kaman K-225". airandspace.si.edu. NASM. Retrieved January...

Turmo in Turbotrain (France) and Turboliner (United States) service. Air turborocket Free-piston engine Motorjet Rocket turbine engine Turbo-compound engine...

control – Air traffic controllers' strike of 1981 – Air-to-ground communication – Air turborocket – Altimeter – Altiport – Altitude – Angel Flight – Angle...

Reaction engines Turbines: Turbojet Turbofan Propfan Rocket-powered Air turborocket Air-augmented rocket Motorjet Pulsejet Valveless pulsejet Gluhareff Pressure...

sudden or inappropriate thrust lever movements, which resulted in incorrect air-fuel ratios in the combustion chamber. Modern engines are much more robust...

the compressor and air tank. Hybrid systems can be made simply by adding a cartridge breech or an air tank to an existing system. Air tanks can also be...

the air flows from stage to stage. The role of the rotor blades is to accelerate the incoming air for increasing the kinetic energy of the air. Then...

(sodramjet); or simply referred to as shock-ramjet engine) is a concept of air-breathing ramjet engine, proposed to be used for hypersonic and/or single-stage-to-orbit...

disruption of airflow within the compressor which continues to provide compressed air, but with reduced effectiveness. Rotating stall arises when a small proportion...

aircraft such as cruise missiles and target drones. A pulsejet engine is an air-breathing reaction engine that employs an ongoing sequence of discrete combustion...

While it did not achieve level flight, it was the first manned heavier-than-air powered flight. 1877: Enrico Forlanini built and flew a model steam-powered...

speed to compress the incoming air forcefully before combustion (hence ramjet), but whereas a ramjet decelerates the air to subsonic velocities before...

as well as) driving a propeller, it drives a compressor. The compressed air is channeled into a combustion chamber, where fuel is injected and ignited...

plug nozzle with a rough conical taper and some gas injection, forming an "air spike" to help make up for the absence of the plug tail. However, a full-length...

high-pressure air by the compression system. The combustor then heats this air at constant pressure as the fuel/air mix burns. As it burns the fuel/air mix heats...

program launch. The company reported rotating detonations of a compressed fuel-air mixture in the presence of the supersonic airflow necessary for speeds above...

directly linked to the main engine and started by an onboard compressed air bottle. During World War I, the British Coastal class blimps, one of several...

the Wright brothers. While some earlier engineers had attempted to model air propellers on marine propellers, the Wright Brothers realized that a propeller...

the accessories – such as generators, pumps for fuel and lubrication oil, air compressors, hydraulic pumps and engine starters – that are otherwise essential...

nozzle. Air enters the intake and is compressed by the compressor. Fuel is then added to the compressed air in the combustor, where the fuel-air mixture...

replaced by electronic attitude and heading reference systems (AHRS) and air data computers (ADCs), improving reliability and reducing cost and maintenance...