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engine noun apparatus, appliance, contraption, convenience, device, facility, generator, locomotive, machine, machinery, means, meehanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, method, motor, muscle power, power plant, powerhouse, source of power, tool, transducer, transformer, turbine, utensil, utility


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95 Hardcover QC168 Babu (mechanical engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras) presents material he developed for his graduate class on incompressible and compressible flows and air-breathing engines.
Although NASA's X-43A and other hypersonic airplanes uses air-breathing engines and fly much like 747s, there is a big difference between ripping air at Mach 10 (around 7,000 mph) and cruising through it at 350 mph.
That flight was recognized for setting a speed record for an air-breathing engine by the Guinness World Records book.
 
 
 
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