Sentence examples for turbojet from inspiring English sources
noun
A jet engine that develops thrust solely from high-speed exhaust gases expelled from a turbine that drives a compressor.
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.
Thus in a turbojet, ambient air is taken in at the engine inlet (induction), compressed about 10 to 15 times in a compressor consisting of rotor and stator blades (compression), and introduced into a combustion chamber where igniters ignite the injected fuel (combustion).
Nevertheless, by the early 1950s Pratt & Whitney had leapfrogged the rest of the industry with its first turbojet design, the J57.
France succeeded with its first effort at a jet airliner, creating the Sud-Est (later Aérospatiale) SE 210 Caravelle, a medium-range turbojet intended primarily for the continental European market.
The first successful test of a turbojet engine was conducted in 1937 in Britain, while two years later the German Heinkel He 178 became the first operational aircraft powered by a jet engine.
A swept-wing, turbojet-powered subsonic vehicle about one-third the size of a jet fighter, the AQM-34 penetrated heavily defended areas at low altitudes with impunity by virtue of its small radar cross section, and it brought back strikingly clear imagery.
The most important U.S. antiship missile was the turbojet-powered Harpoon, which weighed about 1,200 pounds in its air-launched version and had a 420-pound warhead.
Work proceeded swiftly, and on Aug. 27, 1939, von Ohain's HeS.3B engine enabled Erich Warsitz to make the world's first successful turbojet-powered flight in history in the Heinkel He 178.
It proceeded more rapidly, and the very first flight of a turbojet-powered aircraft, a Heinkel HE-178, came in August 1939.
After the war he organized (1922) the Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in Warnemünde, where he built the He 70, which set eight world speed records in the early 1930s; the He 176, first aircraft to fly successfully with reaction motors; the He 178, first turbojet-powered aircraft; and the He 111 and He 162, widely used by Germany's air force during World War II.
