• The YF-102 is a Chinese liquid rocket engine burning LOX and kerosene in a gas generator cycle. It is manufactured by the AALPT based on the experience...
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    internal weapons bay to carry both guided missiles and rockets. On 23 October 1953, the prototype YF-102 performed its maiden flight; however, it was destroyed...
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  • This page is an incomplete list of orbital rocket engine data and specifications. Comparison of orbital launch systems Comparison of orbital launchers...
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    A cryogenic rocket engine is a rocket engine that uses a cryogenic fuel and oxidizer; that is, both its fuel and oxidizer are gases which have been liquefied...
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    YF-94B, 355 built. YF-94C F-94Bs modified with Pratt and Whitney J48 engine, leading edge rocket pods, and swept tailplane, originally designated YF-97A...
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    variant with uprated engine and equipment changes, 406 built as F-86Ds. YF-86K Basic version of F-86D intended for export with rocket tray replaced by four...
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    aircraft were fitted with both a turbojet for low-speed flight and a rocket engine for supersonic flight. The invention of the afterburner, in which extra...
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    The designation "F-107A" was the only one assigned to the aircraft, though "YF-107A" is often used in publications. The aircraft is also informally called...
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    the allied forces. Jet engines were already widely used after their introduction in the UK, but the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket represented technologies...
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    Northrop Corporation (category Defunct aircraft engine manufacturers of the United States)
    P-600, and eventually the YF-17 Cobra, which lost the competition to the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon. Nevertheless, the YF-17 Cobra was modified...
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    XP-86, North American model NA-140 YF-86A this was the first prototype fitted with a General Electric J47 turbojet engine. F-86A 554 built, North American...
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    the first engine for actual flight was ready in 2014. On September 20, 2015, the Long March 6 (长征六号), a small rocket using one YF-100 engine on its first...
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    become chief engine designer for the Corvair in 1959. The turbocharged Corvair was released one month after the turbocharged Turbo-Rocket engine in the Oldsmobile...
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    Genie rocket. The name Scorpion came from the aircraft's elevated tail unit and high-mounted horizontal stabilizer, which kept it clear of the engine exhaust...
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    system was eventually used in the Lockheed YF-12 program. The final configuration for the rear cockpit in the YF-12A looked similar to that of the F-108...
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    LR121/AR-2-NA-1 rocket engine, used for astronaut training at altitudes up to 120,800 ft (36,800 m). QF-104A A total of 24 F-104As (4 YF-104As, 20 early...
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    YF-17, especially at supersonic speeds. Another advantage of the YF-16 – unlike the YF-17 – was its use of the Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan engine,...
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    for the LWF program. Though the YF-16 won the LWF competition, the Navy was skeptical that an aircraft with one engine and narrow landing gear could be...
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    Ground-breaking Northrop YF-5A". Air Enthusiast 105, May/June 2003, pp. 8–12. ISSN 0143-5450 Garrison, Peter (September 2005). "White Rocket". Air and Space Magazine...
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    Convair XF-92 (category Single-engined jet aircraft)
    aircraft powered by a ducted rocket. Years earlier, the company had performed designs which involved liquid-cooled radiator engines. With this design, fuel...
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    major damage. The second YF-105A made its first flight on 28 January 1956. Despite being powered by a less potent J57-P-25 engine with 15,000 pounds-force...
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    Construction began in November 1949 on what was to become the Experimental Rocket Engine Test Station. Jurisdiction of Edwards AFB was transferred from Air Materiel...
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    Convair F-106 Delta Dart (category Single-engined jet aircraft)
    flight. Major differences from the F-102 included the adoption of the more powerful Pratt & Whitney J75 turbojet engine, heavily redesigned air inlets along...
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    North American X-15 (category Rocket-powered aircraft)
    aerodynamic and rocket controls, depending on how effective each system was at controlling the aircraft. Among the many controls were the rocket engine throttle...
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    one F2Y was still in storage as of 1962. As a result, it was redesignated YF-7A under the 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system.  United...
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  • system. In 1955, the rocket engine operations were spun off into a separate division as Rocketdyne. This division furnished engines for the Redstone, Jupiter...
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    fighter project, the N-102 Fang, with shoulder-mounted delta wing and a single engine. The proposed General Electric J79 engine, weighing nearly two tons...
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    mounted in the nose. 15 converted. YF-4E One of the original YRF-4C prototypes was converted into the YF-4E. The YF-4E was used in the development of the...
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    Lockheed XF-104 Starfighter (category Single-engined jet aircraft)
    being lost through accidents, the USAF ordered 17 service-test/pre-production YF-104As. Production Starfighters proved popular, both with the USAF and internationally...
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    Retrieved 2023-11-15. "FLASHBACK: Triplesonic Interceptors: The F-103, F-108 & YF-12A". Air Force Materiel Command. 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2023-12-13. "XF-103...
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