To: Red Badger
The USAF experimented with a nuclear-powered bomber.
8 posted on
09/28/2017 6:46:00 AM PDT by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Army Air Corps
The USAF experimented with a nuclear-powered bomber.
I think popular science had an article on nuclear airplanes but there was a radiation problem they could not solve.
12 posted on
09/28/2017 6:52:17 AM PDT by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Army Air Corps
Go to the article link. There’s pictures of the nuclear USAF aircraft.........
13 posted on
09/28/2017 6:53:16 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Army Air Corps
The Engines still buried below the Softball Field at P&W's Southington plant.
31 posted on
09/28/2017 7:19:56 AM PDT by
Waverunner
(I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
To: Army Air Corps
The USAF experimented with a nuclear-powered bomber. The "Project Pluto/Phoenix" nuclear ramjet engine worked. It was also very dirty. It never flew. They did fly a reactor as a test.
The real problem I see with this lovely aircraft in the OP is that we still don't have a working fusion reactor on the ground ...
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