ducted-fan engine

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• ducted-fan engine — An aircraft engine incorporating a fan or propeller enclosed in a duct, especially a jet engine in which an enclosed fan or propellant is used to ingest ambient air to augment the gases of combustion in the jet stream. The air may be taken in at… …   Aviation dictionary

• Ducted fan — Bell X 22 on the tarmac A ducted fan is a propulsion arrangement whereby a fan, which is a type of propeller, is mounted within a cylindrical shroud or duct. The duct reduces losses in thrust from the tip vortices of the fan, and varying the… …   Wikipedia

• ducted fan — noun A propeller which is housed inside a duct to improve engine performance of aircraft …   Wiktionary

• fan — i. A combination of three or more cameras that provides wide lateral coverage with adequate overlap. See fan camera photography. ii. The rotor in the beginning of a turbofan engine. iii. A propeller, especially when the emphasis is upon its… …   Aviation dictionary

• fan-jet — noun 1. an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine • Syn: ↑fanjet, ↑turbofan, ↑turbojet • Hypernyms: ↑jet, ↑jet plane, ↑jet propelled plane • Part Meronyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• ducted propulsor — A multibladed fan running in a propulsive duct integrated with the engine and the airframe to give efficient and quite low speed propulsion …   Aviation dictionary

• Airbreathing jet engine — An airbreathing jet engine (or ducted jet engine) is a jet engine propelled by a jet of hot exhaust gases formed from air that is drawn into the engine via an inlet duct. All practical airbreathing jet engines are internal combustion engines that …   Wikipedia

• Jet engine — For a general overview of aircraft engines, see Aircraft engine. A Pratt Whitney F100 turbofan engine for the …   Wikipedia

• gas-turbine engine — Introduction       any internal combustion engine employing a gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine. The term also is conventionally used to describe a complete internal combustion engine consisting of at least a compressor, a… …   Universalium

• Mitsubishi J8M — Role Interceptor Manufacturer Mitsubishi First flight …   Wikipedia

• Tsu-11 — The Tsu 11 was a primitive, motorjet style jet engine produced in small numbers in Japan in the closing stages of World War II. It was principally designed to propel the Japanese Ohka flying bomb, a kamikaze weapon.The Tsu 11 used a four cylinder …   Wikipedia