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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