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Jet engines and liquid rocket engines have much in common. Both pump fuel and oxidizer into a combustion chamber to develop ... is that rockets carry their oxidizer with them whereas jet engines use air as their source of oxygen. In rocket engine terminology, the term "jet" usually refers to the stream of hot gas that ...

A jet engine requires air for jet fuel to burn. There is no air in space. ---- Answer provided by Jon H. Brown ...

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... Jet Propulsion" series the book has sections on the historical development of jet propulsion, basic principles of jet propulsion, turbojet engines, turboprop engines, intermittent jets, liquid and solid propellant rocket engines, ram rockets and other hybrid type engines, use of atomic energy in jet propulsion, and prospects ...

... , with chapters entitled: "Review of Principal Definitions, Concepts, and Basic Physical Laws," "Principle of Jet Propulsion and Engine Classification," "Aerothermodynamics of Steady, One-Dimensional Isentropic Compressible Flow," "Compressible Flow in Constant-Area ... , Fuels, and Controls," "Gas Turbines," "The Turbojet Engine," "Thrust Augmentation of the Turbojet Engine," "The Turbopump Engine," "High Flight Mach Number Air-Breathing Engines," and "The Rocket Engine." Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography ...

... the book prepared by authorities in the aviation and space medical fields: "Medical Aspects of Jet and Space Travel," "The Natural Environment and the Environment of Flight," "Radiobiology and the Environment ... and the Reactions to Jet Flight," "Human Requirements for Space Travel," "Preventive Medicine in Jet and Space Flight," "Aircraft Accidents and Flight Safety," "Human Factors Related to Jet Aircraft," "The Engineered Environment of the ...

... , 1948: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 563 pages, $8.50'' This is a fundamental engineering text on jet propulsion, with an extensive treatment of rocket motors. Some of the specific subjects covered ...

... AIRCRAFT JET POWERPLANTS''' by Durham, F. P. ''New York, 1951: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 304 pages, $7.00'' ... thrust and the energy equation, thermodynamic properties of air and gas, combustion chambers, turbines, ramjet engines, rocket engines, etc., in this large size, illustrated book. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography ...

... into varying numbers of sections. Chapters deal with objectives and trends, geophysical and astrophysical fundamentals, engineering fundamentals, trajectory fundamentals, aerodynamic fundamentals, powered flight, free-flight trajectories close to celestial bodies, satellite ... systems and power sources, communications systems and equipment, propulsion fundamentals, air-jet propulsion systems, solid propellant rocket engines, liquid propellant rocket engines, advanced propulsion systems, design fundamentals of space vehicles, manned space flight ...

... is not at all similar to taking off in a jet, although the vehicle will land like one—but with the engine off. ---- Answer provided by Lt. Col. USAF (Ret.) William ...

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