Air-augmented rockets use the supersonic exhaust of some kind of rocket engine to further compress air collected by ram effect during flight to use as...

of the fuel and air and increases total pressure recovery. In a throttleable ducted rocket, also known as a variable flow ducted rocket, a valve allows...

oxygen from the air Air-augmented rocket normally uses some external air, but can operate without it Rocket engine uses no external air Turbojet uses the...

takeoff (RATO or RATOG). Not all rocket planes are of the conventional takeoff like "normal" aircraft. Some types have been air-launched from another plane...

Yaroslavl – 1965) was a Soviet artillery and rocket engineer who developed the first air-augmented rocket, Gnom, or Gnome (installable on mobile complexes...

The aerospike engine is a type of rocket engine that maintains its aerodynamic efficiency across a wide range of altitudes. It belongs to the class of...

at Mach 9. Air-augmented rocket – Rockets that use supersonic exhaust to create additional acceleration Aerospike engine – Type of rocket engine that...

saturation attacks. The second stage uses dual-pulse solid rocket motor which is lighter instead of air-breathing solid ramjet engine to increase the overall...

Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka aircraft as an alternative to the solid-propellant rocket engines that these aircraft were then using. The Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich...

rocket propellants stored inside the rocket. However, non-combusting forms such as cold gas thrusters and nuclear thermal rockets also exist. Rocket vehicles...

utilize a gas turbine as a secondary, high-horsepower "sprint" engine to augment its primary piston engine's performance. The turboshaft engines used in...

atmosphere. A liquid air cycle engine uses liquid hydrogen (LH2) fuel to liquefy the air. In a liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen rocket, the liquid oxygen (LOX)...

Internal combustion engine (ICE) Nuclear power Solar thermal rocket (an externally heated rocket) Naptha engine, a variant of the steam engine, using a petroleum...

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

engines are either piston engines or gas turbines, although a few have been rocket powered and in recent years many small UAVs have used electric motors. The...

fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion. While this broad definition may include rocket, water jet, and hybrid propulsion...

Aileron – Air charter – Air defense identification zone (ADIZ) – Air freight terminal – Air traffic flow management – Air-augmented rocket – Airband –...

(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...

within a few years. Except for specialized rocket research vehicles like the North American X-15 and other rocket-powered spacecraft, aircraft top speeds...

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...

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Retrieved December 31, 2021. El-Sayed, Ahmed F. (25 May 2016). Fundamentals of Aircraft and Rocket Propulsion. Springer...

Aerospike engine — Aerostat — Aft-crossing trajectory — Aileron — Air-augmented rocket — Aircraft — Aircraft flight control systems — Aircraft flight mechanics...

turbojet with precooler Liquid air cycle engine – a hydrogen-fuelled jet engine that liquifies the air before burning it in a rocket engine Scramjet – jet engines...

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...

Texas Air & Space Museum. Retrieved July 18, 2019. GE Aircraft Engines 1987. "Manufacturers positioning for coming competitive battles". Air Transport...

This clearly distinguishes it from other reaction engine types such as rockets, turbojets, and ramjets, which are all constant combustion devices. All...

[citation needed] Delta D, also known as Thrust Augmented Delta, was a Delta C with the Thrust Augmented Thor core plus three Castor 1 boosters.[citation...

air-breathing engine – or rocket-based, combined cycle engine – gets its initial take-off power from specially designed rockets, called air-augmented...

long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance...

hydrogen and oxygen to create electricity, much like a liquid-propellant rocket motor, but generating electricity in a controlled chemical reaction, instead...