Scramjet - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Scramjet: Encyclopedia Ii - Scramjet - Theory
All scramjet engines have an inlet, which compresses the incoming air, fuel injectors, a combustion chamber and a thrust nozzle. Typicall...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ramjet: Encyclopedia Ii - Ramjet - Design
In its simplest form a turbojet consists of an air intake, compressor, combustor, turbine and nozzle. In a ramjet, owing to the high flig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Engine: Encyclopedia - Engine
An engine is something that produces some effect from a given input. The origin of engineering was the working of engines. There is an ov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fixed-wing Aircraft: Encyclopedia - Fixed-wing Aircraft
Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as airplanes in North American English and aeroplanes in Comm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ramjet: Encyclopedia Ii - Ramjet - Applications
They are found almost exclusively in missiles, where they are boosted to operating speeds by a rocket engine, or by being attached to ano...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ramjet: Encyclopedia Ii - Ramjet - Related Engines
Ramjets always slow the incoming air to a subsonic velocity within the combustor. Scramjets, or "supersonic combustion ramjet" are simila...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fixed-wing Aircraft: Encyclopedia Ii - Fixed-wing Aircraft - Types Of Fixed-wing Aircraft
Fixed-wing aircraft - Propeller aircraft. Propeller airplanes make use of combustion engines, that in turn, turn a propeller, which cre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Engine - History Of Engines
Engine - Antiquity. While chemical and electrical engines of enormous power dominate the modern world, engines themselves are not new. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fixed-wing Aircraft: Encyclopedia Ii - Fixed-wing Aircraft - Safety
Statistics show that the risk of an air accident is very small. One is more likely to have an accident going to the airport in a car than...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fixed-wing Aircraft: Encyclopedia Ii - Fixed-wing Aircraft - Flight Lift
An airplane flies due to the aerodynamic reactions that happen when air passes at high speed over the wing. If you look at a cross-sectio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fixed-wing Aircraft: Encyclopedia Ii - Fixed-wing Aircraft - History
The dream of flight goes back, for Man, to the days of pre-history. Many legends, beliefs and myths of antiquity involve flight, such as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fixed-wing Aircraft: Encyclopedia Ii - Fixed-wing Aircraft - Designing And Constructing An Airplane
Small airplanes can be designed and constructed at home, by aviators who possess sufficient knowledge in the areas of engineering, physic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fixed-wing Aircraft: Encyclopedia Ii - Fixed-wing Aircraft - Industrialized Production
There are relatively few companies that produce airplanes on a large scale. However, the production of an airplane for one company is a p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Engine - Usage Of The Term
In original usage, an engine was any sort of mechanical device. The term "gin" in cotton gin is a short form of this usage. Practically e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Engine - Air-breathing Engines
Air-breathing engines use atmospheric air to oxidise the fuel carried, rather than carrying an oxidiser, as in a rocket. Theoretically, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fixed-wing Aircraft: Encyclopedia Ii - Fixed-wing Aircraft - Conventional Airplanes
Conventional airplanes -- from small planes such as the Bumble Bee II and Cessna 140 to a gigantic Antonov 225 -- consist of a longitudin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scramjet: Encyclopedia Ii - Scramjet - Recent Progress
In recent years, significant progress has been made in the development of hypersonic technology, particularly in the field of scramjet en...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scramjet: Encyclopedia Ii - Scramjet - Scramjet Programmes
Scramjet - HyShot. On July 30, 2002, the University of Queensland's HyShot team conducted the first ever test successful flight of a sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scramjet: Encyclopedia Ii - Scramjet - History
During and after World War II, tremendous amounts of time and effort were put into researching high-speed jet- and rocket-powered aircraf...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scramjet: Encyclopedia Ii - Scramjet - Simple Description
A scramjet is a type of engine which is designed to operate at the high speeds normally associated with rocket propulsion. It is differen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scramjet: Encyclopedia Ii - Scramjet - Applications
Seeing its potential, organizations around the world are researching scramjet technology. Scramjets will likely propel missiles first, si...   » Read the article