Airbreathing Propulsion

Ramjet-City

		A ceremony to mark the opening of our new engineering and testing area in Aschau, called "Ramjet City", took place in October 2000. Ramjet City has been designed mainly for the Meteor programme. new ramjet and conventional test units buildings for motor integration environmental and thermal simulation and all necessary infrastructure Ramjet City was operational in April 2001.



	Technical Highlights Compressors for test bench air supply (75 m3 at 300 bar!) Supply equipment for H2, O2 and N2 (gas bottles) Modern fully automatic measurement and control system Integration building for propellant weights up to 500 kg Environmental simulation (temperature, vibration, shock etc.) - altitude, moisture and climate; salt-spray; temperature shock - Shakcer (107 kN Sinus-capacity within temperature range) - Drop-test equipment (up to about 3000g; half-sinus etc.)