Survey of types of engine that will be used in next generation of supersonic and hypersonic aircraft is presented; main uses envisaged are civil or military high-speed cruise aircraft and recoverable first-stage of space-launcher or recoverable first-stage of two-stage long-range cruise aircraft capable of hypersonic speeds; family tree of aero engines consisting of turbojet, ramjet and rocket and their further developments are shown and discussed; application chart lists various types of engines together with some of more obvious advantages and disadvantages; engines are classified in terms of application and Mach number limitations.
Review of propulsion for high mach number aircraft
Aircraft Eng
Aircraft Engineering ; 38 , n 1
1966
8 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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