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Parent topics
- Aerospace engineering [r]: The branch of engineering that concerns aircraft, spacecraft, and related topics. [e]
- Combustion [r]: A sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat or both heat and light in the form of either a glow or flames. [e]
Subtopics
Manufacturers
- General Electric Company [r]: A corporation based in Fairfield, Connecticut employing about 300,000 people around the world; established in 1890 by the noted inventor Thomas A. Edison. [e]
- Pratt and Whitney [r]: Add brief definition or description
- SNECMA [r]: Add brief definition or description
Parameters
- Bypass (jet engine) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thrust [r]: Add brief definition or description
Variants
- Air turboramjet [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Turbofan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Variable cycle engine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Turbojet [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Turboprop [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Turboshaft [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Propfan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pulse jet [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Turborocket [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ramjet [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thrust vectoring [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Turbocharger [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Afterburner [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Supercruise [r]: A combination of jet engine and aircraft design that allows sustained supersonic flight without requiring an engine afterburner and its extremely high fuel consumption [e]
- Water injection (engines) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thrust reversal [r]: Add brief definition or description
Applications
- Jetboat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fixed-wing aircraft [r]: Vehicles that remain aloft using the lift from the flow of air over wings which are fixed in position, in relation to the rest of their structure. [e]
- U.S. commercial aviation history to 1966 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Kingdom [r]: Constitutional monarchy (capital London) and island nation in north-west Europe, between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, which includes England, Scotland, Wales (on the island of Great Britain) and Northern Ireland. [e]
- World War II, air war [r]: Air operations in the Second World War [e]
- Me-262 [r]: A WWII German aircraft that was the first jet air superiority fighter in significant production, with its advent delayed by Hitler's insistent that it also be able to bomb. [e]
Other related topics
Basic technologies
- Gas turbine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gas compressor [r]: A machine that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. [e]
- Metallurgy, high-temperature [r]: Add brief definition or description
History
- Rocket science [r]: Variously an incorrect name for various engineering disciplines in dealing with unguided rockets or the rocket motors of more intelligent vehicles, or an ironic description of something very complex or very simple (i.e., "this isn't rocket science") [e]
- Frank Whipple [r]: Add brief definition or description
