The critical engine of a multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft is the engine that, in the event of failure, would most adversely affect the performance or...
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P-factor (section Single engine propeller aircraft)
determines which engine is critical engine. For most aircraft (which have clockwise rotating propellers), the left engine is the critical engine. For aircraft...
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the critical engine failure recognition speed or takeoff decision speed. It is the speed above which the takeoff will continue even if an engine fails...
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The Wankel engine (/ˈvaŋkəl̩/, VUN-kell) is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion...
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controlled with the critical engine inoperative. The radial blue line indicates VYSE, the speed for best rate of climb with the critical engine inoperative....
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"The Story & the Engine" is the fifth episode of the fifteenth series of the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on...
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engine failure will not endanger the flight. This is done by planning the takeoff around three critical V speeds, V1, VR and V2. V1 is the critical engine...
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Supercharger (redirect from Critical altitude)
In an internal combustion engine, a supercharger compresses the intake gas, forcing more air into the engine in order to produce more power for a given...
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A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...
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Aircraft with four or more engines have not only a VMCA (often called VMCA1 under these circumstances), where the critical engine alone is inoperative, but...
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The aircraft diesel engine or aero diesel is a diesel-powered aircraft engine. They were used in airships and tried in aircraft in the late 1920s and...
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Counter-rotating propellers (category Aircraft engines)
and P-factor, meaning that such aircraft do not have a critical engine in the case of engine failure. Drawbacks of counter-rotating propellers come from...
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A rotating detonation engine (RDE) uses a form of pressure gain combustion, where one or more detonations continuously travel around an annular channel...
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Ad Astra Rocket Company (section 200 kW engine)
improvements in critical engine components, 'fine-tuning' the radio-frequency power system settings, and upgrades to the software that controls the engine during...
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September 2022). "Tuas mega port officially opens with 3 berths, will be critical engine driving S'pore economy: PM Lee". The Straits Times. Retrieved 1 September...
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compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine). This contrasts with engines using spark plug-ignition of the...
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satisfactorily even at speeds greater than their critical Mach number. They did not possess sufficient engine thrust to reach Mach 1.0 in level flight, but...
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and time-to-market—all critical factors in the highly competitive video game industry. Like other types of middleware, game engines usually provide platform...
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A heat engine is a system that transfers thermal energy to do mechanical or electrical work. While originally conceived in the context of mechanical energy...
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Thermoacoustic engines (sometimes called "TA engines") are thermoacoustic devices which use high-amplitude sound waves to pump heat from one place to...
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Engine efficiency of thermal engines is the relationship between the total energy contained in the fuel, and the amount of energy used to perform useful...
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A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion. While this...
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GTRE GTX-35VS Kaveri (redirect from Kaveri Engine)
Kaveri engine architecture is unable to provide hence will not be used. The engine did achieve higher Technology Readiness Level (TRL) in critical technology...
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per minute at an altitude of 5,000 feet with the critical engine inoperative and the remaining engines operating at not more than maximum continuous power...
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Thomas & Friends (redirect from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends on DVD and Video)
by Britt Allcroft. The series follows the adventures of Thomas the Tank Engine—an anthropomorphic blue steam locomotive who lives on the fictional Island...
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A rocket engine is a reaction engine, producing thrust in accordance with Newton's third law by ejecting reaction mass rearward, usually a high-speed...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne AR1 (redirect from AR1 (rocket engine))
critical engine designs. ULA announced in early February 2015 that they were considering undertaking domestic production of the Russian RD-180 engine...
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an hour.[citation needed] On February 12, 2019, after suffering a critical engine failure, Norwegian Epic collided with a dock at San Juan, Puerto Rico...
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to the Americans. Another 1,500 British trucks were found to have critical engine faults and were unusable, limiting assistance from that quarter. The...
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over a month before the game's release. Despite positive critical reception, Battle Engine Aquila received poor sales. IGN ranked it as the 86th best...
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