The Victorians developed effective turbines for turning water and steam power into work, and also turbopumps for doing the opposite.
During the early part of the 20th century, research was carried out into various arrangements for turbo-compression, combustion and turbine work extraction in the...
There's no doubt that the Vultee XP-54's top speed fell short of expectations during test flights and that the Northrop XP-56 Northrop was a failure aerodynamically, but I read that Vultee considered fitting the XP-54 design with a turbojet (potentially creating a lookalike of the Focke-Wulf...
The following United States military aircrafts of the Cold War were equipped with the Pratt & Whitney J57 axial-flow turbojet engines:
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger
Douglas A3D Skywarrior
McDonnell F-101 Voodoo
North American F-100 Super Sabre
Vought F-8 Crusader
Douglas, McDonnell, and Vought...
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