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|A standard air breathing engine. This model utilizes an array of rotating fins to enable limited range thrust vectoring. This engine chokes in thick atmospheres and will only operate efficiently in the thinner air, due to its high performance ram air intakes. | |A standard air breathing engine. This model utilizes an array of rotating fins to enable limited range thrust vectoring. This engine chokes in thick atmospheres and will only operate efficiently in the thinner air, due to its high performance ram air intakes. | ||
|C7 Aerospace Division}} | |C7 Aerospace Division}} | ||
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Revision as of 16:35, 18 November 2012
The TurboJet Engine is an air-breathing engine which requires fuel from FL-T fuel tanks.
Usage
The TurboJet Engine uses a fan to draw oxygen from the atmosphere rather than from an onboard tank like a rocket engine, which makes it far more fuel-efficient than any rocket motor at altitudes below twelve kilometers. However, the TurboJet's fan is problematic: fly above twelve kilometers or at low throttle and it will draw too little air, moreover, the fan itself takes time to adjust to new power settings whereas a rocket motor responds instantly to throttle input.
The Turbojet might not like breathing in thick atmosphere, but it's sufficiently powerful that using the Basic Jet Engine at low altitudes provides little improvement.
Currently, jets do not require air intakes and function independently of whether use an intake is present or not.
In real life, a turbojet engine's fan pulls all the air from the intake through a combustion chamber, as opposed to a turbofan in which some of the air sucked in bypasses the chamber and is shot out of the back without being burned at all. The turbojet is more efficient at high speeds and in thinner atmospheres, although turbofans are much quieter and are very efficient when moving slowly. This is why turbofans are almost exclusively fitted on airliners, and turbojets are more common on fighter planes.
Description
| “ | A standard air breathing engine. This model utilizes an array of rotating fins to enable limited range thrust vectoring. This engine chokes in thick atmospheres and will only operate efficiently in the thinner air, due to its high performance ram air intakes. — C7 Aerospace Division |
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Created by: C. Jenkins
Changes
- Initial Release
