Scram Sonic
Do you think air travel emergency stop will succeed?
Recently, the emergency stop jet was tested successfully. This led to speculation in the press of the hypersonic air travel in the future. However, if we remember, this is not the first time you travel in supersonic jet is performed. Already in the 60's, flying the Concorde supersonic passenger transport between the UK and France. Unfortunately, it was never accepted widely in the world because of the sonic boom it creates, as it flies past. Under such circumstances, do you think that a hypersonic airplane air transport passenger never manages to become the new airliner in the future? Do you think that an aircraft will ever replace the conventional airliner now used?
Dead as a door nail technology has been around for nearly 50 years and has not been used because it is fundamentally a bad idea. We scramjets Marquardt testing in the 1950's and worked technoliogy. Regular ramjet – with subsonic combustion – flew at Mach 4 and altitudes of more than 100 thousand feet above the Lockheed x7. Scramjets worked in the wind tunnel. Unused why? Caro and has no advantage. The Boeing BOMARC – Mach 2.5 interceptor – lost to Nike, as the Nike did the job cheaper. I rode the Concorde once – nice, but I never would have done if someone did not buy my ticket. And the Concorde was compared woith slow these things. While I'm at it, LACE liquid air cycle engine is so dead. Idea – for aircraft landing space. I built a working model small-scale demonstration of lace. Same way – very complicated.
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