{"id":192056,"date":"2009-05-16T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/16\/more-scramjet-news\/"},"modified":"2009-05-16T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T11:03:00","slug":"more-scramjet-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/16\/more-scramjet-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More Scramjet News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img20.imageshack.us\/img20\/5091\/aw051120091935l3026811.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"350\" \/>While DARPA&#8217;s Blackswift hypersonic , the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-05-11&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/05\/11\/AW_05_11_2009_p46-138694.xml\">dual mode turbojet\/scramjet Falcon combined-cycle engine technology (FACET)soldiers on<\/a>, (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>) and has actually successfully completed tests up to Mach 4 in a wind tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>The technology used a turbojet to get to high supersonic speeds, at which point the scramjet kicks in, and the turbojet is cocooned, and it is supposed to take a vehicle to around Mach 6.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img29.imageshack.us\/img29\/6950\/8406d12fa55e43c39bea867.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"350\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img29.imageshack.us\/img29\/9413\/x51awaverider2thumb500x.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"350\" \/>Additionally, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Af765961f-b9ba-4712-9a90-ee99c6c4c509\">X-51A scramjet test vehicle has been moved to the Boeing plant at Huntington Beach, CA for structural tests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as sophisticated as the FACET, it&#8217;s a pure scramjet, and boosted to speed by a rocket booster after being dropped by a B-52, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/the-dewline\/2009\/03\/as-the-first-mach-60.html\">it&#8217;s rather crude<\/a>, using existing equipment wherever possible, using a rocket booster from ATACMS, an existing fuel control system, and geriatric igniters from the TF-33 engine, along with using a rather heavy tungsten nose cone and ablative coatings elsewhere to deal with the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While DARPA&#8217;s Blackswift hypersonic , the dual mode turbojet\/scramjet Falcon combined-cycle engine technology (FACET)soldiers on, (paid subscription required) and has actually successfully completed tests up to Mach 4 in a wind tunnel. The technology used a turbojet to get to high supersonic speeds, at which point the scramjet kicks in, and the turbojet is cocooned, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1128,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-propulsion","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}