Word: turbojet
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...Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton. It dates, under various names, back to World War I, and has grown into a massive tangle of intricate equipment. It tests everything from pin-head-size transistors to heavy bombers, loading them with weights or twisting their wings with tension devices. Turbojet engines, ramjets and rocket motors bellow on test stands like prehistoric monsters...
...SeaMaster. the first good-sized craft to test seagoing jet engines, is comparable in length and wing span to a big airliner. Its four Allison J71 turbojet engines with take-off afterburners can get it into the air with a 30,000-lb. payload and push it faster than 600 m.p.h. at 40,000-ft. altitude. These characteristics make it a medium bomber, although its Navy sponsors, for fear of antagonizing the Air Force's Strategic Air Command and the Navy's own airplane-carrier partisans, prefer to call it a "mine layer." Portable Base. If the SeaMaster...
...that time, Saturday Toiler Nordhoff may have some new evidence on which to base his own view. Last week Volkswagen announced that it has bought an assembly plant at New Brunswick, N.J., where Studebaker has turned out J47 turbojet engines. There, Volkswagen will assemble its rear-engine, four-cylinder cars for the U.S. market, where it already has 40% of all foreign-car sales (2,500 a month). In Jersey, Heinz Nordhoff is not likely to find many workers troubled by the emptiness and disconsolateness of a two-day weekend...
Campbell strapped on his light-blue life jacket and wedged himself into the Bluebird's cockpit. The 4,000-h.p. turbojet whined into life. Once he was lined up on his marker buoy. Campbell widened out on his foot throttle. Spray arched from her stern as the Bluebird rose on her floats and shot toward the end of the lake five miles away. Her jet roar thundered through the nearby hills. Seconds later, Campbell was ready to refuel for the run back...
...bypass engine is an intermediate type that stands midway between the turbojet and the turboprop. It has two compressors, each driven by its own turbine through its own shaft (see diagram). Some modern turbojets have this arrangement too, but all the air that is compressed passes through the combustion chambers to form the high-speed jet. In the bypass engine, part of the air from the forward compressor flows around the combustion chambers (incidentally cooling trie engine's skin) and mixes with the speeding gas in the tailpipe. It cools the stream and slows it, but adds greatly...