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21Rocket engine — RS 68 being tested at NASA s Stennis Space Center. The nearly transparent exhaust is due to this engine s exhaust being mostly superheated steam (water vapor from its propellants, hydrogen and oxygen) …
22Yakovlev Yak-141 — Yak 141 Yakovlev Yak 141 Role VTOL fighter Man …
23Saturn AL-31 — AL 31 Saturn AL 31 FN turbofan engine Type Turbofan …
24F-15 S/MTD — Infobox Aircraft name = F 15 S/MTD and F 15 ACTIVE type = Technology Demonstrator and Research Aircraft national origin=United States manufacturer = McDonnell Douglas caption = designer = first flight = September 7 1988 introduced = retired… …
25Turbofan — [ CFM56 3 turbofan, lower half, side view.] A turbofan is a type of jet engine, similar to a turbojet. It essentially consists of a ducted fan with a smaller diameter turbojet engine mounted behind it that powers the fan. Part of the airstream… …
26Supermaneuverability — is quality of aircraft defined as a threshold of attitude control exceeding that which is possible by pure aerodynamic maneuverability. It is a trait of some advanced fourth generation and 4.5 generation fighter aircraft and is generally a… …
27Sukhoi Su-30MKI — Infobox Aircraft name= Su 30MKI type= Air Superiority Fighter, Multirole Fighter, Heavy Class Fighter, Long Range Fighter, Strike Fighter crew= 2 manufacturer= Sukhoi HAL caption= Su 30MKI in Service with the Indian Air Force designer= first… …
28Rocket — This article is about vehicles powered by rocket engines. For other uses, see Rocket (disambiguation). A Soyuz U, at Baikonur Site 1/5 A rocket is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust from a rocket engi …
29Solid-fuel rocket — A solid rocket or a solid fuel rocket is a rocket with a motor that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid fueled, powered by gunpowder, used by the Chinese and Arabs in warfare as early as the 13th century. All… …
30Gas-dynamic — A gas dynamic control system is one where the path of an object in flight is controlled by either the generation or redirection of gas flow out of an orifice rather than with the traditional movable control surfaces. There are two major types of… …
