AIR FORCE NEWS
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@James Robinson
An oxygen oxymoron? Neat alliteration, but your rocket engine “by definition” is a solid - and solids are great, but they’re short duration and once lit you can’t switch ‘em off. This technology has the potential to deliver controllable and sustained high Mach propulsion, whether by using the British developed cooling system (described in the article) to enable existing jet engine technology (also a British pre-WWII invention) to fly faster without the jet engine melting, or as the first component stage of the jet-rocket hybrid SABRE engine for single stage runway to low orbit launch and return (or other applications)
@Vicious Fish
Did you “get really stupid”? Well, if you confuse “the Chinese and Russians” with the UK/Britain where this technology has been invented and developed perhaps only you can answer your question.
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This is an interesting read, regarding the jet engine.
The pre cooler that is talked about here, is just one (very important part) of the overall design, which is to allow the reaction engine, to work as a jet engine at lower altitudes, then morph into a rocket engine. It would carry oxygen , but would need a lot less, since it's far higher. This project has been going 30 years now.
Obviously the precooler, which has been validated, is a very exciting piece of kit.
Well did we lose everything on hypersonic speed learned from the X-15 project in the 50s and 60s and get really stupid. I mean those guys topped out at Mach 6.7 in manned flight. And now here we are having to relearn all that stuff and being behind the Chinese and Russians in this technology. I mean really.
Vicious Fish at 6:26 PMso jay you are saying that we have been sitting on our butts forgetting everything we learned with the 50s and 60s hypersonic program and let everyone else take the lead? That is what I call getting stupid. We should be light years ahead of everyone else. BTW I thouth it was the Germans who developed jet engine technology
Viscious Fish at 6:27 PM
Dumb Question, I thought Rocket Engines by definition required the use of a stored oxidizer. I thought jet engines by definition burned oxygen in the atmosphere. Is it not an oxymoron to have an air breathing rocket engine?
James Robinson at 9:41 AM