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Rebellious Pentagon boffins, whose plans for a really cool hypersonic robot stunt plane were stymied by stick-in-the-mud Washington politicos, have managed to sneak through an alternative project. A $2m contract has been inked for initial development work on the "Vulcan" zero-to-Mach-4 hyper pulse-jet engine.
DARPA orders hypersonic Nazi Doodlebug engine
Seeded on Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:13 PM EDT
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The even madder continuous detonation concept would use crafty flow designs to feed fuel/air mix towards the point of explosion at the propagation speed of the detonating shockwave.
I'm thinking that having to effectively slow the fuel mass to zero as it makes its way to the detonation front, is going to make this a spectacularly inefficient engine.
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#1 - Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:16 PM EDTYet another example of U.S. politics and policies being published elsewhere. Sure seems that someone is trying to get off of Planet Earth or else the now retired and obsolete Bush's have built a resort in Bali featuring blow your hair back service.....!
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