{"id":199543,"date":"2007-07-17T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/17\/russia-achieves-low-energy-ignition-of-pulse-detonation-engine-16-07-2007-flight-international\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T16:11:00","slug":"russia-achieves-low-energy-ignition-of-pulse-detonation-engine-16-07-2007-flight-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/17\/russia-achieves-low-energy-ignition-of-pulse-detonation-engine-16-07-2007-flight-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia achieves low-energy ignition of pulse-detonation engine-16\/07\/2007-Flight International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/16\/215434\/russia-achieves-low-energy-ignition-of-pulse-detonation.html\">Russians have made a significant advance in pulse-detonation engines<\/a> (PDE).<\/p>\n<p>A PDE is similar in concept to the pulse jet that powered the V1.<\/p>\n<p>The differences are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No Moving Parts (pulse jets have shutters)<\/li>\n<li>The flame front propogates through detonation as opposed to detonation (it&#8217;s a supersonic shock)<\/li>\n<li>It promises higher efficiencies that existing propulsion.<\/li>\n<li>It can operate from a stand still.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the cycle for the engine:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img115.imageshack.us\/img115\/5990\/getassetmu2.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Russians have made a significant advance in pulse-detonation engines (PDE). A PDE is similar in concept to the pulse jet that powered the V1. The differences are as follows: No Moving Parts (pulse jets have shutters) The flame front propogates through detonation as opposed to detonation (it&#8217;s a supersonic shock) It &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199543"}],"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=199543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}