A Thrust Air 2000 (commonly known as a thrust air coaster) is a unique form of launched roller coaster created by S&S Worldwide, Inc., that uses refrigerated...
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Hypersonic XLC (redirect from Air powered coaster)
Logan, Utah. It was called the Thrust Air 2000 and featured a unique one-of-a-kind launch system known as a compressed air launch. The prototype featured...
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Thrust reversal, also called reverse thrust, is the temporary diversion of an aircraft engine's thrust for it to act against the forward travel of the...
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Do-Dodonpa (category Thrust Air 2000)
Manufactured by S&S – Sansei Technologies, the launched coaster used compressed air to propel its trains. It opened on 21 December 2001 as the fastest roller...
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Thrust vectoring, also known as thrust vector control (TVC), is the ability of an aircraft, rocket or other vehicle to manipulate the direction of the...
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pneumatic launch uses compressed air to launch the vehicle. The technology was developed by S&S as the Thrust Air 2000 model. The first coaster of this...
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Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland Hypersonic XLC, the world's first production Thrust Air 2000 (now defunct) Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point was the first strata...
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launched roller coaster, Hypersonic XLC, in 2001. Hypersonic XLC, a Thrust Air 2000 air-launched coaster made by S&S Power, launched riders from 0 to 80...
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technology on roller coaster launches with the Thrust Air 2000, which used refrigerated, compressed air to achieve a high-acceleration launch. A pair opened...
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On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde passenger jet on an international charter flight from Paris to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff...
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of its thrust reversers. This accident resulted in the deaths of all 223 passengers and crew. "Lauda Air on ch-aviation". ch-aviation. Lauda Air; DIE Press;...
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Boeing X-32 (category V/STOL aircraft by thrust vectoring)
was the large chin-mounted air intake. This was required to feed sufficient air to the main engine (to provide the thrust necessary to hover) during the...
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Supermaneuverability (section Thrust-to-weight ratio)
control. The Cobra, as performed by non-thrust vectoring aircraft, still depends on the aircraft moving through air; however, it does not involve the aircraft's...
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AlliedSignal) CFE738-1-1B turbofans, with 5,918 pounds-force (26.32 kilonewtons) of thrust each, a range of 2,841 nautical miles [nmi] (5,262 km; 3,269 mi) range and...
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of thrust. The F119 resulted from the Joint Advanced Fighter Engine (JAFE) program in the early 1980s aimed at supplying the powerplant for the Air Force's...
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lightweight fighter to replace the Mirage III for the French Air Force (Armée de l'air). The Mirage 2000 evolved into a multirole aircraft with several variants...
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Guizhou JL-9 (redirect from FTC-2000)
the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) and the People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force (PLANAF). The FTC-2000 started as a GAIEC private venture...
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jet that intermittently produces thrust. The traditional valved pulsejet has one-way valves through which incoming air passes. When the fuel mix is ignited...
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IRIS-T (category International air-to-air missiles)
tail/thrust vector-controlled) is a medium range infrared homing missile available in air-to-air and surface-to-air variants. It also is called AIM-2000....
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Fourth-generation fighter (section Thrust vectoring)
16 June 2008. "Air-Attack.com – Su-30MK AL-31FP engines two-dimensional thrust vectoring" Archived 2010-09-17 at the Wayback Machine. air-attack.com. Retrieved:...
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Thrust-specific fuel consumption (TSFC) is the fuel efficiency of an engine design with respect to thrust output. TSFC may also be thought of as fuel...
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tailplanes (horizontal or vertical). Attitude control relies purely on 3D thrust vectoring. The aircraft design was derived from the F-22 Raptor and featured...
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current Air Caraïbes was founded in July 2000 through the merger of various local airlines Air Guadeloupe, Air Martinique, Air Saint Barthélémy, and Air Saint...
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Dassault Mirage 2000 fighter by Snecma. The engine is in service with different air forces, including the latest Mirage 2000-5 and 2000-9 multirole fighters...
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Ion-propelled aircraft (section Air gap)
to provide lift or thrust in the air without requiring combustion or moving parts. Current designs do not produce sufficient thrust for manned flight or...
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Sukhoi Su-37 (category Three dimension thrust vectoring aircraft)
by the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association before having thrust-vectoring nozzles installed. It also had updated flight- and weapons-control...
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Maximum thrust: 11,000 lbf (48.9 kN) military thrust 17,700 lbf (78.7 kN) with afterburner Overall pressure ratio: 26:1 Bypass ratio: 0.34:1 Air mass flow:...
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aircraft being high on approach. They had kept the engines at idle thrust and allowed the air speed to reduce to a lower than normally permissible value on...
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