{"id":197546,"date":"2008-01-26T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/26\/750-million-for-hypersonic-demonstrator\/"},"modified":"2008-01-26T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T00:13:00","slug":"750-million-for-hypersonic-demonstrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/26\/750-million-for-hypersonic-demonstrator\/","title":{"rendered":"$750 Million for Hypersonic Demonstrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA is getting<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%3A30b7a4ab-3d57-47c6-829b-7520cdbf92f5\">$750 million for its &#8220;Blackswift&#8221; hypersonic demonstrator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s performance is fairly mild as hypersonics go, about Mach 6-7, but it will take off and land under its own power, and use conventional hydrocarbon, as opposed to cryogenic fuels, so the utility of such a craft is significantly more than a lot of the other demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t need fuel tanks that are basically Dewar flasks, and it&#8217;s tanks should be much smaller, since hydrogen is much less dense than conventional jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p>It integrates a turbine for low speed propulsion, using an, &#8220;inward turning inlet&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img147.imageshack.us\/img147\/6303\/fc61ccc938c848e4ba6ef14xk3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img147.imageshack.us\/img147\/6824\/ab8c59d35d5943c28806e75mb3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, this concept looks a bit less &#8220;tubby&#8221; than hydrogen powered systems\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA is getting$750 million for its &#8220;Blackswift&#8221; hypersonic demonstrator. It&#8217;s performance is fairly mild as hypersonics go, about Mach 6-7, but it will take off and land under its own power, and use conventional hydrocarbon, as opposed to cryogenic fuels, so the utility of such a craft is significantly more than a lot of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197546"}],"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=197546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}