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Wiktionary
n. (context aviation English) A jet engine capable of propelling an aircraft at hypersonic speeds; combustion of the fuel/air mixture occurs at supersonic speeds
Wikipedia
A scramjet (supersonic combusting ramjet) is a variant of a ramjet airbreathing jet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow. As in ramjets, a scramjet relies on high vehicle speed to forcefully compress the incoming air before combustion (hence ramjet), but a ramjet decelerates the air to subsonic velocities before combustion, while airflow in a scramjet is supersonic throughout the entire engine. This allows the scramjet to operate efficiently at extremely high speeds.
Usage examples of "scramjet".
The scramjet tumbles in an uncontrolled dive, the spine of its overstressed airframe shattering, the pressurized cabin exploding along welding seams, breaking up a kilometer above the Pacific.
Mariella drives her battered pickup to Tucson International Airport, collects her tickets at the South Western desk, and moves from business class lounge to scramjet with a sense of huge wheels invisibly meshing around her.
On the scramjet back to Tucson, Mariella tries to forget about the oppressive sense of a vast and invisible battle over her head.
A sample was smuggled out in a diplomatic pouch, aboard a commercial flight, but the scramjet crashed in the Pacific Ocean.
Its experience as a public transport driver worked to its advantage, and it was quickly fitted into a scramjet and put into service on the Moscow-Seattle run.
The rush of the magnetic railgun that launched it up to scramjet speed, the screaming blast of the engine igniting at mach seven and propelling the silvery needle faster and faster until ninety-nine percent of the atmosphere lay below it and the stars came out as hard, unwinking diamonds in the blackness of space, then the whistling descent back to the ground and the swift, precise glide onto the runway -- everything about it felt right.
The landscape rushed past in a blur, then the scramjet kicked in just as they cleared the end of the launch rail and the Navatar stood the plane on its tail, rising vertically through a scattering of patchy cumulus clouds at roach seven going on seventeen.
National Aero Space Plane, the Russians have Scramjet, the Brits have HOTOL.
As a scramjet, the note was highest of all, a screaming operatic soprano.
The scramjet ignited then, liquid hydrogen vaporizing in carefully designed supersonic plume patterns within the hot compressed airflow before combusting in long, lean azure flames.
The AS pilot began to throttle back the scramjet as they reached Mach 20.
And a scramjet fighter, long slim delta shape banking in frozen motion on its stand.
No more risky than an ordinary scramjet flight, these days, and she could probably swing it.
Citizen supervisors who had been following her dash from the orbital scramjet port in Alexandria.
There were control-cabin windows at the bow, scramjet intakes below the rear edge.