Sentence examples for ramjet from inspiring English sources
noun
A jet engine in which forward motion forces air into an inlet, compressing it (as opposed to having a pump type device compressing the air for combustion with fuel), and where combustion is subsonic.
The Hyper-X-43A, which is pilotless, four metres long, and has a nose made of solid tungsten, will be the first working aircraft to be powered by a scramjet a supersonic-combustion ramjet.
One type, called a ramjet, slows incoming air to subsonic speeds using a carefully shaped inlet to compress and thereby slow the airstream.
As you mention, a ramjet needs to fly supersonically, which a V1 flying bomb did not.
It planned to test the X-43A, a prototype aircraft powered by a supersonic-combustion ramjet, or "scramjet" (see article).
The industry simply moves too fast.David SadtlerLondonBomb surpriseSIR – You slip up by saying that the V1 flying bomb of the second world war was powered by a ramjet ("Scram!", April 21st).
The Wright Flyer wobbled over the sands at Kittyhawk for a distance of 36 metres; in its ten seconds of powered flight the X-43A will travel around 22km.Unlike the more familiar turbojet, which uses a turbine-powered fan to compress the incoming air before it is mixed with fuel, a ramjet compresses air by forcing it down an ever-narrowing funnel.
After graduating in 1951 he took over the test programme for one of the world's first ramjet-powered aircraft, the Nord 1500 Griffon.
The first generation of American SAMs included the Army Nike Ajax, a two-stage, liquid-fueled missile that became operational in 1953, and the rocket-boosted, ramjet-powered Navy Talos.
Between them, DARPA and the Air Force Research Laboratory AFRLL) now have reams of technical data about launchers, re-entry vehicles, hypersonic aircraft, ramjets, scramjets, and everything in between the ground, the sky and beyond thanks to unmanned experimental vehicles like the X-37 spacecraft, the X-51 hypersonic aircraft and HTV-2 test vehicle.
Ramjets power France's new, nuclear-tipped ASMPA missiles.
Engines that do this are called supersonic-combustion ramjets, or scramjets.
