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| Tango01 | 19 Aug 2014 10:42 p.m. PST |
…for U.S. military. "Engine technology being developed for a British space plane could also find its way into hypersonic aircraft built by the U.S. military. The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is studying hypersonic vehicles that would use the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE), which the English company Reaction Engines Ltd. is working on to power the Skylon space plane, AFRL officials said. "AFRL is formulating plans to look at advanced vehicle concepts based on Reaction Engine's heat-exchanger technology and SABRE engine concept," officials with AFRL, which is based in Ohio, told Space.com via email last month…"
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| Mako11 | 26 Aug 2014 5:51 p.m. PST |
Can't wait, if we aren't already using that tech. |
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