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...

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...

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...

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,...

This page is an incomplete list of orbital rocket engine data and specifications. Comparison of orbital launch systems Comparison of orbital launchers...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

being lost through accidents, the USAF ordered 17 service-test/pre-production YF-104As. Production Starfighters proved popular, both with the USAF and internationally...

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...

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...

aircraft powered by a ducted rocket. Years earlier, the company had performed designs which involved liquid-cooled radiator engines. With this design, fuel...

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...

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...

flight. Major differences from the F-102 included the adoption of the more powerful Pratt & Whitney J75 turbojet engine, heavily redesigned air inlets along...

aerodynamic and rocket controls, depending on how effective each system was at controlling the aircraft. Among the many controls were the rocket engine throttle...

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...

X-7 was constructed from steel, unlike its successors such as the A-12 and YF-12 which used titanium. These X-7 planes had wings constructed from stainless...

prototypes being ordered one year later following modifications. The first YF-100A performed its maiden flight on 25 May 1953, seven months ahead of schedule...

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...

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...

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...

system. In 1955, the rocket engine operations were spun off into a separate division as Rocketdyne. This division furnished engines for the Redstone, Jupiter...

0° East, replacing the Palapa-D satellite. But one of the two YF-75 third stage engines failed to ignite, preventing the Palapa-N1 (Nusantara Dua) satellite...

embrittlement: 412  until the problem was understood. On May 25, 1953, a J57-powered YF-100A exceeded Mach 1 on its first flight. The J57 was used as the gas generator...