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BAE Systems has taken a 20 percent stake in a British company developing an air-breathing rocket engine capable of powering aircraft at speeds in excess of 4,500 miles per hour.
Europe’s largest defense contractor announced Nov. 2 it was investing £20.6 million (US$31.8 million) in the Abingdon, England-based company Reaction Engines.
The synergetic air-breathing rocket engine, or SABRE for short, uses ground-breaking technology able to propel an air vehicle at more than Mach 5 in the atmosphere before transitioning into a rocket mode giving spaceflight at speeds up to orbital velocity, equivalent to 25 times the speed of sound.
I just hope we dont do something stupid like give it to the USA
originally posted by: donktheclown
a reply to: crazyewok
I just hope we dont do something stupid like give it to the USA
That figures, like the U.S. hasn't given 70% percent of our technology to you.
originally posted by: crazyewok
I just hope we dont do something stupid like give it to the USA or China for some blankets and beads .
This really could be a economic game changer on the scale of the industrial revolution
what makes you think the U.S. didn't hand the technology to Rolls Royce to begin with?
originally posted by: donktheclown
Besides, what makes you think the U.S. didn't hand the technology to Rolls Royce to begin with?
originally posted by: donktheclown
a reply to: crazyewok
I just hope we dont do something stupid like give it to the USA
That figures, like the U.S. hasn't given 70% percent of our technology to you. Besides, what makes you think the U.S. didn't hand the technology to Rolls Royce to begin with?
originally posted by: Poon
a reply to: chr0naut
Frank Whittle
Robert Goddard
I suppose their surnames sound a little German..
The patent for a stationary gas turbine was granted to John Barber in England in 1791. The first gas turbine to successfully run self-sustaining was built in 1903 by Norwegian engineer Ægidius Elling. Limitations in design and practical engineering and metallurgy prevented such engines reaching manufacture. The main problems were safety, reliability, weight and, especially, sustained operation. The first patent for using a gas turbine to power an aircraft was filed in 1921 by Frenchman Maxime Guillaume. His engine was an axial-flow turbojet. Alan Arnold Griffith published An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design in 1926 leading to experimental work at the RAE.