A jet engine is any engine that can propel an aircraft of some kind via rearward expulsion of a jet of fluid, typically a hot exhaust gas that the engine generates by drawing in fuel from the ...

In the 1930s his countryman René Leduc would develop a ramjet aircraft—the Leduc 0.10—though the coming war would keep it from flying for a decade. A Russian team, led by Yuri Pobedonostsev ...

Ramjet engines make it possible to reach very high flight speeds of more than five times the speed of sound, known as hypersonic. These engines not only offer great potential for future aviation and ...

Two months in, during the development of the Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile for the Air Force, I experienced my first ramjet test. Solid- and liquid-fuel rockets contain both the fuel and ...