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Kind of engine for an airplane
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ramjet
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Ramjet is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers toy-based media franchise. All have been Decepticon aligned characters who turn into jets, usually white.
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n. a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed [syn: ramjet engine , atherodyde , athodyd , flying drainpipe ]
Usage examples of ramjet.
It was the light of a Bussard ramjet, burning a bare eight miles away.
There is a minimum speed at which a Bussard ramjet will operate, and Phssthpok was not far above it.
The abandoned Bussard ramjet crossed over the sun and curved inward, following a shallow hyperbola which would take it through the plane of the planets.
The faster a Bussard ramjet ship moves, the more fuel it would pick up.
Three great hollows held the components of a Pak-style Bussard ramjet ship.
I might believe they loaded everything on the trailing ship and used the lead ship purely as a stripped Bussard ramjet compressor.
The lead ship is a Bussard ramjet, built to fight, but not too different from ours.
A Bussard ramjet will put out a lot of funny chemicals: high-energy hydrogen and helium, lithium radicals, some borates, even lithium hydride, which is generally an impossible chemical.
They were more airplane than spaceship, for, although each was sealed and pressurized to operate outside the atmosphere while making contact with orbiting spaceships, each was winged and was powered with ramjet atmosphere engines as well as with rocket jets.
In a paper published in Astronautica Acta in 1973 he points out that a ramjet built of aluminum could withstand a journey of 12.
Bonded with a high-strength synthetic resin, a diamond fiber Bussard ramjet could travel those thirty-five hundred light-years in 15.
If we consider operating near the hot stars or near nebulae which throw off masses of hydrogen, the ramjet would really begin to take full advantage of the effects of Time Dilation in Relativity, as outlined earlier in this chapter.
However, a Bussard ramjet steered through this zone would need to be brought up to power gradually by slowly turning on the magnetic field.
But with an ion ramjet you could collect all there are in a given part of space, convert them to energy, and fly your machine for many years in the atmosphere.
Intense study of gossamer flight, ramjet flight, solar-powered flight.