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Definition of Ramjet engine
1. Noun. A simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ramjet Engine
Literary usage of Ramjet engine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aerospace Plane Technology: Research and Development in Japan and Australia (1994)
"... engine is the same as a turbofan-ramjet engine or turbojet-ramjet engine.
A combined-cycle engine in which hot gases from a ..."
2. Commercial Space Launch Industry: Congressional Hearing edited by Bill Frist (2001)
"Thus, the Space Access's patented ejector ramjet engine and the associated Space
Access launch system ..."
3. Identification of Promising Naval Aviation Science and Technology Opportunities by Nsb, National Academies Press (U.S.), National Research Council (2006)
"... in which the first stage has a turbojet engine and the final stage has a rocket
or ramjet engine. Of course, the intention is to recover the first stage ..."
4. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle by Roger E. Bilstein (1999)
"Even though the Navaho used a ramjet engine for sustained flight to the target,
the heavy vehicle was boosted into the air by three liquid-propellant rocket ..."
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