Former American maker of liquid-fueled rocket engines, located in New Jersey
Not to be confused with Reaction Engines.
Reaction Motors, Inc. (RMI)
Company type
Private company
Industry
Rocket technology
Founded
1938
Defunct
April 17, 1958
Fate
Merged into Thiokol as Reaction Motors Division, disbanded 1972
Area served
United States
Key people
Lovell Lawrence Jr, George Edward Pendray, James Hart Wyld
Reaction Motors, Inc. (RMI) was an early American maker of liquid-fueled rocket engines, located in New Jersey. RMI engines with 6,000 lbf (27 kN) thrust powered the Bell X-1 rocket aircraft that first broke the sound barrier in 1947, and later aircraft such the X-1A, X-1E, and the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket. A 20,000 lbf (89 kN) thrust RMI engine also powered the Viking research rocket, the first large liquid-fueled US high-altitude rocket. RMI was merged with Thiokol in 1958, where it produced the XLR-99 engine that powered the X-15 rocket aircraft.
ReactionMotors, Inc. (RMI) was an early American maker of liquid-fueled rocket engines, located in New Jersey. RMI engines with 6,000 lbf (27 kN) thrust...
The ReactionMotors LR99 engine was the first large, throttleable, restartable liquid-propellant rocket engine. Development began in the 1950s by the...
the United States for use in aircraft. It was designed and built by ReactionMotors Inc., and used ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen as propellants to generate...
The ReactionMotors Rocket Test Facility was located at 936 Dogwood Trail in the borough of Franklin Lakes in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States...
Pollux missiles. In 1958, Thiokol merged with ReactionMotors Inc. (RMI), makers of liquid propellant rocket motor systems. Also in 1958, Thiokol received a...
cylinder. Non-thermal motors usually are powered by a chemical reaction, but are not heat engines. Examples include: Molecular motor – motors found in living...
A reaction engine is an engine or motor that produces thrust by expelling reaction mass (reaction propulsion), in accordance with Newton's third law of...
{B}})} . Linear motors are most commonly found in high accuracy engineering applications. Many designs have been put forward for linear motors, falling into...
Laurance Rockefeller, New York; venture capital: Eastern Air Lines, ReactionMotors, International Nickel and inherited wealth: Standard Oil Trust. Nelson...
and stored). Rocket engines have also been fueled by ammonia. The ReactionMotors XLR99 rocket engine that powered the X-15 hypersonic research aircraft...
American shortwave radio station, often referred to on air as RMI ReactionMotors Inc., an early American maker of liquid-fueled rocket engines Federico...
powered by aniline and red fuming nitric acid (RFNA). Robert Goddard, ReactionMotors, and Curtiss-Wright worked on aniline/nitric acid engines in the early...
contractor. Given the required thrust levels, the Viking propulsion (the ReactionMotors XLR10) was deemed insufficient, and instead, the General Electric proposal...
Reactionmotor with propellant charge mounted in it. Classification: Propellant charge supports. U.S. patent 2,563,265, Aerojet 1943. Rocket motor with...
Lavochkin design bureau Lovell Lawrence Jr. (1915–1971) – co-founder of ReactionMotors Bill Lear (1902–1978) – founder of Learjet Jerome F. Lederer (1902–2004)...
A reaction wheel (RW) is used primarily by spacecraft for three-axis attitude control, and does not require rockets or external applicators of torque....
The McMurry reaction is an organic reaction in which two ketone or aldehyde groups are coupled to form an alkene using a titanium chloride compound such...
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