Burt Rutan's White Knight and SpaceShip One, Photo Courtesy of Scaled Composites
Thermodynamics and Propulsion


11. Aircraft Engine Performance

In Chapter 10 we arrived at general expressions that related the thrust of a propulsion system to the net changes in momentum, pressure forces, etc. Now we will look at how efficiently the propulsion system converts one form of energy to another on its way to producing thrust.



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