A type of jet engine in which the air drawn in for combustion is compressed solely by the forward motion of the aircraft.
冲压式喷气发动机
Example sentencesExamples
They've carried 400 lb of cargo, but the X - 15 carried a comparable amount of instrumentation, telemetry, flight experiments, data recorders, and on several occasions, a test model of a supersonic ramjet.
The X - 43A is an air-breathing supersonic ramjet, which ducts air directly from the atmosphere, mixing it with hydrogen before combustion.
The two main contenders are hypersonic ramjets or scramjets and nanotube-based space elevators.
The engine, which will be provided by the Air Force, will be a dual-mode scramjet capable of running as a ramjet or scramjet.
The unpiloted vehicle's supersonic combustion ramjet, or scramjet, ignited as planned and operated for the duration of its hydrogen fuel supply.
Rhymes
scramjet
Definition of ramjet in US English:
ramjet
nounˈræmˌdʒɛtˈramˌjet
A type of jet engine in which the air drawn in for combustion is compressed solely by the forward motion of the aircraft.
冲压式喷气发动机
Example sentencesExamples
The engine, which will be provided by the Air Force, will be a dual-mode scramjet capable of running as a ramjet or scramjet.
The two main contenders are hypersonic ramjets or scramjets and nanotube-based space elevators.
The unpiloted vehicle's supersonic combustion ramjet, or scramjet, ignited as planned and operated for the duration of its hydrogen fuel supply.
The X - 43A is an air-breathing supersonic ramjet, which ducts air directly from the atmosphere, mixing it with hydrogen before combustion.
They've carried 400 lb of cargo, but the X - 15 carried a comparable amount of instrumentation, telemetry, flight experiments, data recorders, and on several occasions, a test model of a supersonic ramjet.