To: Red Badger; the scotsman
Not really, it uses a cryogenic precooler to cool the incoming air before stuffing it into the rocket nozzles.
They had a successful test of the precooler recently.
It’s not so much a scramjet as it is a ducted rocket with cooled air being fed to it from outside.
Inverse cycle engine or some such?
Seems to me that’s what it may be called.
I think.
Don’t quote me on that one.
5 posted on
11/29/2012 10:07:33 AM PST by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
To: Darksheare
pre-cools incoming air from 1000 degrees Celsius to minus 150 degrees in 1/100th of a second I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that bit... What in the world could cool air that fast?
15 posted on
11/29/2012 10:53:09 AM PST by
TheBattman
(Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
To: Darksheare
16 posted on
11/29/2012 11:06:05 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Darksheare
to cool the incoming air before stuffing it into the rocket nozzles.
Where does the air come from if outer space is a vacuum with no air?
38 posted on
12/01/2012 10:24:04 AM PST by
Hot Tabasco
(Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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