A bit of history for the scramjet: The earliest attempts at jet engines were hybrid designs, in which an external power source supplied the compression. In this system (called a thermojet by Secondo Campini) the air is first compressed by a fan driven by a conventional gasoline engine, mixed with fuel, and then burned for jet thrust. Three known examples of this type of design were the Henri Coanda's Coanda-1910 aircraft, the much later Campini Caproni CC.2, and the Japanese Tsu-11 engine intended to power Ohka kamikaze planes towards the end of World War II.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
A positive development, for a change
A bit of history for the scramjet: The earliest attempts at jet engines were hybrid designs, in which an external power source supplied the compression. In this system (called a thermojet by Secondo Campini) the air is first compressed by a fan driven by a conventional gasoline engine, mixed with fuel, and then burned for jet thrust. Three known examples of this type of design were the Henri Coanda's Coanda-1910 aircraft, the much later Campini Caproni CC.2, and the Japanese Tsu-11 engine intended to power Ohka kamikaze planes towards the end of World War II.
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VCP again. Yawn. The tab...
What does Hubble on Google (let alone Clausius) have to do with the Coanda scramjet? My story (with pic, relevant background, the works) is infinitely superior to yours. As usual.
My Clausius whips your vintage 1955 artist's conception.
The White House has requested almost $250m in congressional funding next year for research into hypersonic technologies, some of which harness the shock waves generated by a fast-moving missile to increase its speed further.
Pah.
It was all predicted by Coanda. Exactly 100 years ago. Go get a Coanda Tec dryer, and meditate on this.
Pills!!
Did you read the Coanda blurb I posted? What else do you need as proof? Just pay up, and be done with it. The sense of relief will be immense.
You and Hayworth will just drink and make up stuff about 9/11 or something. Forget it. You pay.
What does JD have to do with Coanda and the scramjet? The pills, the pills! (And cut down on the plum firewater.)
You're the one that didn't see the VCP. Seems that you owe me another one in that case.
Johnny-one-note.
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