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  2. Ryan X-13 Vertijet - Wikipedia

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    The Ryan X-13 Vertijet (company designation Model 69) is an experimental tail-sitting vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) jet aircraft built by Ryan Aeronautical and flown in the United States in the 1950s. The main objective of the project was to demonstrate the ability of a pure jet to vertically take off, hover, transition to horizontal ...

  3. Rolls-Royce Pegasus - Wikipedia

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    The Rolls-Royce Pegasus is a British turbofan engine originally designed by Bristol Siddeley. It was manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc. The engine is not only able to power a jet aircraft forward, but also to direct thrust downwards via swivelling nozzles. [1] Lightly loaded aircraft equipped with this engine can manoeuvre like a helicopter.

  4. Aircraft engine starting - Wikipedia

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    An interesting feature of all three German jet engine designs that saw production of any kind before May 1945: the German BMW 003, Junkers Jumo 004 and Heinkel HeS 011 axial-flow turbojet engine designs was the starter system, which consisted of a Riedel 10 hp (7.5 kW) flat twin two-stroke air-cooled engine hidden in the intake, and essentially ...

  5. JATO Rocket Car - Wikipedia

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    The account of the JATO Rocket Car was one of the original Darwin Awards winners: a man who supposedly met his death in a spectacular manner after mounting a JATO unit (a rocket engine used to help heavy aircraft to take off) onto an ordinary automobile. It was originally circulated as a forwarded email. [1]

  6. List of game engines - Wikipedia

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    The first game using Source 2, Dota 2, was ported over from the original Source engine. One of The Lab's minigame Robot Repair uses Source 2 engine while rest of seven uses Unity's engine. Spring: C++: C, C++, Java/JVM, Lua, Python: Yes 3D Windows, Linux, macOS: Balanced Annihilation, Zero-K: GPL-2.0-or-later: RTS, simulated events, OpenGL ...

  7. Rolls-Royce BR700 - Wikipedia

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    The BR710 is a twin shaft turbofan, and entered service on the Gulfstream V in 1997 and the Bombardier Global Express in 1998. This version has also been selected to power the Gulfstream G550 . The BR710 comprises a 48 in (120 cm) diameter single-stage fan, driven by a two-stage LP turbine, and a ten-stage HP compressor (scaled from the V2500 ...

  8. Rolls-Royce Spey - Wikipedia

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    The Rolls-Royce Spey (company designations RB.163 and RB.168 and RB.183) is a low-bypass turbofan engine originally designed and manufactured by Rolls-Royce that has been in widespread service for over 40 years.

  9. Aerion - Wikipedia

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    Aerion Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Reno, Nevada.It was founded by Robert Bass of Fort Worth. [2]From 2004 until 2021, the company was developing a 10-passenger supersonic jet to cut transatlantic flights by three hours, using "boomless cruise" technology to negate the sonic boom.