turbojet-powered aircraft
1Rocket-powered aircraft — A rocket powered aircraft or rocket plane is an aircraft that uses a rocket for propulsion, sometimes in addition to airbreathing jet engines. Rocket planes can achieve much higher speeds than similarly sized jet aircraft, but for much shorter… …
2Human-powered aircraft — Michelob Light Eagle human powered aircraft Part of a series …
3Turbojet — Turbojets are the oldest kind of general purpose jet engines. Two engineers, Frank Whittle in the United Kingdom and Hans von Ohain in Germany, developed the concept independently during the late 1930s, although credit for the first turbojet is… …
4turbojet — /terr boh jet /, n. 1. See turbojet engine. 2. an airplane equipped with one or more turbojet engines. [1940 45; TURBO + JET1] * * * Jet engine in which a turbine driven compressor draws in and compresses air, forcing it into a combustion chamber …
5Aircraft noise — is defined as sound produced by any aircraft or its components, during various phases of a flight, on the ground while parked such as auxiliary power units, while taxiing, on run up from propeller and jet exhaust, during take off, underneath and… …
6Aircraft engine — An aircraft engine is a propulsion system for an aircraft. Aircraft engines are almost always a type of lightweight internal combustion engine. This article is an overview of the basic types of aircraft engines and the design concepts employed in …
7Aircraft — An aircraft is a vehicle which is able to fly through the Earth s atmosphere or through any other atmosphere. Rocket vehicles are not aircraft if they are not supported by the surrounding air. All the human activity which surrounds aircraft is… …
8Aircraft registration — A Van s Aircraft RV 7 displaying registration G KELS. The G prefix denotes a civil aircraft registered in the United Kingdom An aircraft registration is a unique alphanumeric string that identifies a civil aircraft, in similar fashion to a… …
9Turbojet development at the RAE — Between 1936 and 1940 Alan Arnold Griffith designed a series of turbine engines that were built under the direction of Hayne Constant at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). The designs were advanced for the era, typically featuring a two… …
10turbojet — n. type of jet engine which includes a turbine to compress air for fuel combustion; aircraft powered by one or more turbojet engines (Aeronautics) …
