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Old 03-22-2018, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by neil_w
Awesome. Please hang around and correct all the other terminology butcherings that are to come. I don't know what hardly anything is called on this thing.
Both terms are equivalent, and are synonymous with each other, but I share your fascination with "alternate terms." Also:

Another German one is "brennschluss" ("end of burning," which refers to either the cessation of thrust itself, or to the time when this is to happen), whose English equivalent is "burnout." In his classic 1949 book, "The Conquest of Space" (illustrated by Chesley Bonestell), Willy Ley introduced "brennschluss" to the American public. He also pointed out that it is more accurate than "burnout" (which was often also used to refer to the burn-through of a rocket combustion chamber's wall [or the case wall or nozzle wall, for a solid propellant rocket], as well as the successful cessation of thrust via shutdown or consumption of all of the propellant). Whether or not "burnout" refers to a failure, or to the successful and planned cessation of thrust, is expressed and understood by connotation, depending on the circumstance, while "brennschluss" doesn't contain this ambiguity. In addition:

As well as referring to an "afterburner" (and "afterburning") as "reheat," the British often use "firing pad" instead of "launching pad," and also "blade" to refer to one fin (as in, "a three-blade fin assembly" [the way the Skylark sounding rocket's 3-fin tail assembly was described in a BAC--British Aircraft Corporation--booklet]). They also commonly refer to a "booster motor" (as for the Skua, Petrel, INTA-255 [which they built for INTA, Spain's space agency], and some Skylark variants) as a "boost motor" or just a "boost."
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