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  Rocket

  The traditional definition of a rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving fluid from within a rocket engine. There are many ... > more
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  Concorde

  The Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST) was one of only two models of supersonic passenger airliners to have seen commercial service. Concorde had a cruise speed of Mach 2.02 (around ... > more
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  Jet engine

  A jet engine is any engine that accelerates and discharges a fast moving jet of fluid to generate thrust in accordance with Newton's third law of ... > more
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  Helicopter

  A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors (propellers). Helicopters are classified as rotary-wing aircraft to distinguish them from conventional ... > more
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  Projectile

  A projectile is any object sent through space by the application of a force. In a general sense, even a football or baseball may be considered a projectile, but in practice most projectiles are ... > more
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  Model rocket

  Model rocketry is a hobby similar to building model airplanes. In the hobby today, there are two distinct areas of rocket activity: amateur (or experimental) rocketry, and model rocketry (including ... > more
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  Transport

  Transport or transportation is the movement of people, goods, signals and information. The field of transport has several aspects: loosely they can be divided into a triad of infrastructure, ... > more
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  Multistage rocket

  A multistage (or multi-stage) rocket is, like any rocket, propelled by the recoil pressure of the burning gases it emits as it burns fuel. What characterizes it as "multi-stage" is that it ... > more
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  Shock wave

  In a supersonic flow the compression of a nonreacting gas can be most simply modelled as an isentropic or Prandtl-Meyer compression, or as a shock wave. When an object (or disturbance) moves faster ... > more
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  Parachute

  A parachute is usually a soft fabric device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag. Parachutes are generally used to slow the descent of a person or object to ... > more

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