ramjets

Then you'd lose all control over the ramjets, which is what's wrong right now. "

Tales of Known Space Niven, Larry 1975

On the physics of the situation, we should be able to drop the per-pound cost significantly without ANY fundamental changes in our approach -- using plain rockets, not Verne guns or Myrabo Death-Star-powered ramjets or anything exotic at all.

MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration? 2008

Buissard ramjets used to ply this space, you know.

365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

Almost compared, say, to propellor airplanes to ramjets.

Buzz Aldrin Says We Can Get to Mars by 2019 | Universe Today 2010

While a cruise missile makes somewhat more sense, cruise missile propulsion is air-breathing (even hypersonic cruise missiles use ramjets, not rockets) – so it would never have gotten very far above the operational ceiling, much less LEO or beyond.

ARROW’S WAY • by Vijayendra Mohanty 2008

It prefers its smaller, faster tunnels for experiments on supersonic combustion ramjets and the like.

Shutting This Wind Tunnel Should Be a Breeze, but Its Fans Won't Be Silent 2009

In 1942 at Peenemunde on the Baltic Sea this was done with a steam-catapult launching system, which sent the ramjets, attached to wings and a bomb an arrangement known as the “V-1” toward London.

American Connections James Burke 2007

In 1942 at Peenemunde on the Baltic Sea this was done with a steam-catapult launching system, which sent the ramjets, attached to wings and a bomb an arrangement known as the “V-1” toward London.

American Connections James Burke 2007

The inventor of the integrated circuit, Nobel Prize winner Gordon Moore, was busy as a kid creating supersonic ramjets including one that narrowly missed a house and synthesizing dynamite from scratch.

Bad toys. Really bad toys. Ann Althouse 2006

Of course the Arch would have impacted the sun without plasma to feed the rim ramjets.

The Ringworld Throne Niven, Larry 1996