Wednesday, April 11, 2018

NAVY RAM JET TEST AT FT MILES FIRING RANGE



LEWES' FORT MILES
TEMPORARY TEST RANGE
NAVY RAM JET ENGINE
June 14 1946

The Navy's new 70 pound ram jet engine which is to propel stratospheric missiles at

1500 mph speeds was successfully tested at Fort Miles Thursday June 13 1946 by Naval

Officers and Johns Hopkins University scientist.

The ram jet engine has been developed the past year by U.S. Bureau of Ordnance and the

Johns Hopkins University physics laboratory.

Because of it's form and has no moving parts it is called the “flying stove pipe” and is the

first step beyond the turbo jet.

Repeated attempts to clear the firing range of menhaden fishing craft and fishing party boats

lasting three hours, several rounds of 5 inch rockets were fired as a warning and the area

cleared.

Two types of the ram jets, the 3A and the Cobra were fired which proved conclusively that

the ram jet is a practical method of achieving high speed flight at high altitudes.


Source::

Abstract of Wilmington News Journal, Friday, June 14, 1946 by Harrison H.



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