Motorjet

A Thermojet (also known as engine jet engine, engine turbojet or rare Motorjet ) is the simplest form of a jet engine. Instead of a turbine drives a piston engine to a compressor. The thus compressed air is directed into a combustor, mixed with fuel injected and burned. The thermal expansion of the hot gas is used as the thrust to the actuator.

The research was discontinued at the end of World War II, when it was clear that turbojets ( turbojet engines - TL) were the better solution by far and also have a better power to weight ratio offered.

The first application of the principle was. By the Romanian- French inventor Henri Coandă Marie in his plane Coanda -1910 in 1910

Probably the most famous aircraft that used this driving principle was the Italian Caproni Campini - CC2 (also Campini - Caproni N.1 ), which first flew on 27 August 1940.

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG -13 used a similar, known as Cholschtschewnikow accelerator drive, but in combination with a conventional propeller ( mixed drive ).