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  2. Pulsejet - Wikipedia

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    A pulsejet engine (or pulse jet) is a type of jet engine in which combustion occurs in pulses.A pulsejet engine can be made with few [1] or no moving parts, [2] [3] [4] and is capable of running statically (that is, it does not need to have air forced into its inlet, typically by forward motion).

  3. History of the jet engine - Wikipedia

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    The first working pulsejet was patented in 1906 by Russian engineer V.V. Karavodin, who completed a working model in 1907. The French inventor Georges Marconnet patented his valveless pulsejet engine in 1908, and Ramon Casanova, in Ripoll, Spain patented a pulsejet in Barcelona in 1917, having constructed one beginning in 1913.

  4. Republic-Ford JB-2 - Wikipedia

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    The pulsejet's forward support pylon's differing shape on the original V-1 ordnance A JB-2 being inspected by USAAF personnel at Wendover AAF, 1944. JB-2 being air launched for flight test by a Boeing B-17 during testing of the weapon at Eglin Field, 1944 In flight after air launch, 1944 Ground preparation prior to air launch, 1944 A JB-2 being prepared for a test launch at Holloman Air Force ...

  5. Timeline of jet power - Wikipedia

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    In his patent, Whittle cleverly hedges his bets, and describes an engine with two axial compressor stages and one centrifugal, thus anticipating both routes forward. 1930: Schmidt patents a pulsejet engine in Germany. 1931: Secondo Campini patents his motorjet engine, referring to it as a thermojet. (A motorjet is a crude form of hybrid jet ...

  6. Project SQUID - Wikipedia

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    Project SQUID was a United States defense effort post-World War II effort to develop and improve pulsejet and rocket engines, run by the Office of Naval Research.. It was started by discovery of the German Argus As 014 pulsejet used on the V1 buzzbomb, which was reverse-engineered as the Republic Ford JB-2, the first American cruise missile.

  7. Argus As 014 - Wikipedia

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    The Argus As 014 (designated 109-014 by the RLM) was a pulsejet engine used on the German V-1 flying bomb of World War II, and the first model of pulsejet engine placed in mass production. License manufacture of the As 014 was carried out in Japan in the latter stages of World War II , as the Kawanishi Maru Ka10 for the Kawanishi Baika kamikaze ...

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  9. Globe KD2G Firefly - Wikipedia

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    First flying as the XKD2G-1 prototype during 1946, the KD2G-1 entered service with the United States Navy during 1947. The improved KD2G-2, powered by a Solar PJ32 pulsejet, began production in 1950; [1] it was the first successful jet-powered target drone to be developed following the end of World War II. [3]