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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 or no moving parts...
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    A valveless pulsejet (or pulse jet) is the simplest known jet propulsion device. Valveless pulsejets are low in cost, light weight, powerful and easy to...
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    of strategic materials. It was to be powered by a single Argus As 014 pulsejet engine, since building this engine required far fewer man-hours than the...
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    term now commonly used to describe a particular and completely unrelated pulsejet design. At the heart the motorjet is an ordinary piston engine (hence,...
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    Kawanishi Maru Ka10 (category Pulsejet engines)
    The Kawanishi Maru Ka10 was a World War II Japanese pulsejet engine based on the German Argus As 014 (as used in the V-1 flying bomb). The Ka10’s only...
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    Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg (category Pulsejet-powered aircraft)
    project. However, this aircraft had fundamental difficulties with its pulsejet propulsion, which led to officials opting to switch focus to the Fi 103R's...
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    engines flown are turbojets, turbofans and rockets. Other types such as pulsejets, ramjets, scramjets and pulse detonation engines have also flown. In jet...
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  • inefficient at low speeds to be useful for general aviation. The first working pulsejet was patented in 1906 by Russian engineer V.V. Karavodin, who completed...
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    V-1 flying bomb (category Pulsejet-powered aircraft)
    welded sheet steel and wings built of plywood. The simple, Argus-built pulsejet engine pulsed 50 times per second, and the characteristic buzzing sound...
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  • surface-to-surface missile was the V-1 flying bomb, it was powered by a pulsejet engine. Contemporary surface-to-surface missiles are usually guided. An...
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