{"id":192965,"date":"2009-01-31T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/31\/hypersonic-engine-tests-continue-despite-blackswift-demise\/"},"modified":"2009-01-31T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T12:44:00","slug":"hypersonic-engine-tests-continue-despite-blackswift-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/31\/hypersonic-engine-tests-continue-despite-blackswift-demise\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypersonic Engine Tests Continue Despite Blackswift Demise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 410px; float: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img217.imageshack.us\/img217\/2118\/aw01192009348l3104948gw7.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" width=\"385\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Facet Common Inlet<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-01-19&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/01\/19\/AW_01_19_2009_p33-111508.xml&amp;headline=Hypersonic+Engine+Set+for+Test+Despite+Blackswift+Cancellation&amp;rssid=123456789\">DARPA is continuing to develop turbine\/ramjet hypersonic propulsion systems<\/a>, (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)  called the Turbine-based combined-cycle (TBCC), despite the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/darpa-cancels-blackswift.html\">cancellation of the Blackswift demonstrator last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 410px; float: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img217.imageshack.us\/img217\/2928\/aw01192009347l3113007pk4.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" width=\"385\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Williams International XTE88 <\/span><span>(Histed)<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The concept remains the same, a turbine to get the vehicle off the ground and through Mach 1, with some level of cocooning beyond that as a Ram\/Scram jet takes over.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA is continuing to test the Falcon combined-cycle engine technology (Facet) developed for Blackswift, along with the high-speed turbojet engine development (Histed).<\/p>\n<p>Basically, they are looking at integrating previously pieces, inlet, combustor and nozzle primarily, into a complete engine system.<\/p>\n<p>Following this, they intend to combine Facet and Histed.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously it is a non trivial issue to test the engines throughout their range without a flight test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facet Common Inlet It looks like DARPA is continuing to develop turbine\/ramjet hypersonic propulsion systems, (paid subscription required) called the Turbine-based combined-cycle (TBCC), despite the cancellation of the Blackswift demonstrator last month. Williams International XTE88 (Histed) The concept remains the same, a turbine to get the vehicle off the ground and through Mach 1, with &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-192965","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\/192965"}],"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=192965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}