The Reaction Motors LR99 engine was the first large, throttleable, restartable liquid-propellant rocket engine. Development began in the 1950s by the...
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Reaction Motors, Inc. (RMI) was an early American maker of liquid-fueled rocket engines, located in New Jersey. RMI engines with 6,000 lbf (27 kN) thrust...
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the United States for use in aircraft. It was designed and built by Reaction Motors Inc., and used ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen as propellants to generate...
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A reaction engine is an engine or motor that produces thrust by expelling reaction mass (reaction propulsion), in accordance with Newton's third law of...
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American Aviation was contracted for the airframe in November 1955, and Reaction Motors was contracted for building the engines in 1956. Like many X-series...
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List of aircraft engines (section Reaction Motors)
MRB-6 Reaction Motors LR2 Reaction Motors LR6 Reaction Motors LR8 Reaction Motors LR10 Reaction Motors LR11 Reaction Motors LR22 Reaction Motors LR26 Reaction...
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Pollux missiles. In 1958, Thiokol merged with Reaction Motors Inc. (RMI), makers of liquid propellant rocket motor systems. Also in 1958, Thiokol received a...
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690 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Reaction Motors XLR11-RM-3 4-chamber liquid-fuelled rocket engine, 6,000 lbf (27 kN) thrust X-1E: Reaction Motors RMI LR-8-RM-5 6,000 lbf...
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for linear motors, falling into two major categories, low-acceleration and high-acceleration linear motors. Low-acceleration linear motors are suitable...
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Laurance Rockefeller, New York; venture capital: Eastern Air Lines, Reaction Motors, International Nickel and inherited wealth: Standard Oil Trust. Nelson...
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& Whitney J60-PW-1 jet engine of 1360 kgf, in place of the X-24A's Reaction Motors XLR-11-RM-13 rocket engine. Martin also manufactured a full-scale,...
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flight as the modified X-15A-2. The X-15A-2 used a reaction Motors XLR99 engine by the Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Company. William J....
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takeoff, climb and landing. For high-speed flight, a four-chamber Reaction Motors LR8-RM-6 engine (the Navy designation for the Air Force's XLR11 used...
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engines powered by aniline and red fuming nitric acid. Robert Goddard, Reaction Motors, and Curtiss-Wright worked on aniline/nitric acid engines in the early...
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Naval Weapons. p. 13. Retrieved 13 March 2024. Davies, Harold (2007). "Reaction Motors (Thiokol) Family of Packaged Liquid Rocket Engines". Journal of Spacecraft...
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Lavochkin design bureau Lovell Lawrence Jr. (1915–1971) – co-founder of Reaction Motors Bill Lear (1902–1978) – founder of Learjet Jerome F. Lederer (1902–2004)...
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The Reaction Motors Rocket Test Facility was located at 936 Dogwood Trail in the borough of Franklin Lakes in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States...
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Paravel Piasecki Helicopter Public Service Corporation of New Jersey Reaction Motors RKO Pictures Rockefeller Apartments Rockefeller Capital Management...
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"spaghetti construction", and the concept is credited to Edward A. Neu at Reaction Motors Inc. in 1947. Regenerative cooling remains the predominant method for...
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Reaction motor with propellant charge mounted in it. Classification: Propellant charge supports. U.S. patent 2,563,265, Aerojet 1943. Rocket motor with...
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American shortwave radio station, often referred to on air as RMI Reaction Motors Inc., an early American maker of liquid-fueled rocket engines Federico...
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to a single large pump-fed engine by two turbine-driven pumps. The Reaction Motors XLR10-RM-2 engine was the largest liquid-fueled rocket engine developed...
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alignment of the main motor the ullage motors are serving), so they can be pumped into the engine plumbing. The firing of the ullage motors is used before engine...
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Sarao Motors, Inc. is a Filipino automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Las Piñas, Metro Manila, the Philippines. The company specializes in...
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in the static testing.: 1520, 1531 The Navy delivered the pumps to Reaction Motors (RMI) to use in developing a gas generator for the pump turbines. Goddard...
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takeoff weight: 7,485 lb (3,395 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Reaction Motors XLR-11 liquid-fuelled rocket motor, 8,000 lbf (36 kN) thrust with four combustion chamber/nozzle...
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Ammonia (redirect from Ammonia motor)
nitrogen gas. Rocket engines have also been fueled by ammonia. The Reaction Motors XLR99 rocket engine that powered the X-15 hypersonic research aircraft...
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PZL — Poland Quick Motors Co Radne Motor AB Rapp-Motorenwerke GmbH — Germany Rasmussen Rausenberger Raven Redrives RBVZ Reaction Motors — US Rearwin Rectimo...
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developed the first engine to break the sound barrier while working with Reaction Motors, Inc. Lovell Lawrence Jr. was born in 1915 to mining engineer, Lovell...
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