• Thrust-to-weight ratio is a dimensionless ratio of thrust to weight of a rocket, jet engine, propeller engine, or a vehicle propelled by such an engine...
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  • performance to another. Power-to-weight ratio is equal to thrust per unit mass multiplied by the velocity of any vehicle. The power-to-weight ratio (specific...
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    Institute and private company Thrust-to-Weight Ratio Engine (TWR). Other experiments have used numerical procedures to better understand the flow-field...
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  • a high-thrust-to-weight ratio allows the aircraft to recover velocity quickly after a high-G maneuver. In particular, a thrust-to-weight ratio greater...
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    air will rise. Thrust-to-weight ratio is, as its name suggests, the ratio of instantaneous thrust to weight (where weight means weight at the Earth's...
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    bypass ratios to compromise between fuel economy and the requirements of combat: high power-to-weight ratios, supersonic performance, and the ability to use...
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  • Guizhou Aeroengine Design Institute. It has a reported thrust-to-weight ratio of 10 and a thrust of 10 metric tons or 22,000 lbs. The WS-19 fits in the...
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    Jet engine (redirect from Jet thrust)
    accelerations are needed since rocket engines themselves have a very high thrust-to-weight ratio. However, the high exhaust speed and the heavier, oxidizer-rich...
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    SpaceX Merlin (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    potential, and they anticipated to be able to increase the sea-level thrust to about 730 kN (165,000 lbf) and a thrust-to-weight ratio of 180. This version of...
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    Rocket (category Articles to be expanded from May 2016)
    essentially the same reasons that low weight is desirable in sports cars. Rockets as a group have the highest thrust-to-weight ratio of any type of engine; and this...
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