Discuss Skylon in The Intelligence Cell on The Army Rumour Service; Woot! the mad boffins of jet reaction are testing the engine for Skylon the son of hotol yay.
Proper bleeding edge tech that could cange the world.
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Skylon Woot! the mad boffins of jet reaction are testing the engine for Skylon the son of hotol yay.
Proper bleeding edge tech that could cange the world.
had a spot on the newsOn a Hot morning in cyprus I found the meaning of anger. Fortunataly I was comftably numb.
The RSM and various other NCO's seemed very agitated.
maybe they should look into counselling?
- 27-04-2012, 21:10 #2Senior Member
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This sounds like the best investment opportunity in decades. If there was a share option in REL I'd stump up a few bob, jut to keep the development in UK.
Alan Bond isnt a fake. If he can make this work, then the jet engine is sooooo last century.First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
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- 27-04-2012, 21:13 #3Senior Member
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Saw the same clip on the box. Looks excellent so it'll go the same way as all of our other inventions:
Reaction Engines Ltd : Current Projects : SKYLON
Edited to add: Fireball XL5 meets SR71
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Make a great bomber
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- 27-04-2012, 21:48 #5Fascinating project, but will it ever be as good as Harrier/Ark Royal/SLR/Two-man bivvy?
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If dave had a brain he'd use the trident cash to build this it would make space useable once your in orbit your 90% to anywhere.
fozzy likes this.On a Hot morning in cyprus I found the meaning of anger. Fortunataly I was comftably numb.
The RSM and various other NCO's seemed very agitated.
maybe they should look into counselling?
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Its great getting up there, and the orbital mechanics are elementary my dear (Gene) Krantz, but re entry may be problematic. Most delivery systems dont even concern themselves with re-entry at all and leave that bit out of the engineering. I'd be interested to see if Skylon or anyone else, could explain how the heat of re-entry is going to be so simple. Does the re-entry just tear the engines apart? does the outer skin of Skylon need replacing after every flight?
First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
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- 27-04-2012, 21:57 #8Yeah. Jammed into a plastic tube for 12 hours eating shite food and watching a bollocks movie over headphones that crackle then having some fat bint with hormone issues telling you that you cannot have another plastic little bottle of wine on your shitty fold down laptop 'table' then somebodies fucking sprog pukes on the back of your seat and starts to howl and the fat cunt next to you quietly voids his bowels. Originally Posted by scalieback
Hell in space vs Hell at 50,000ft? Hmmm. Tough one.If I hate blue Smarties does that make me a racist?
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- 27-04-2012, 21:59 #9Senior Member
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Any help? Originally Posted by mercurydancer
Reaction Engines Ltd : Current Projects : SKYLON - The Vehicle
During re-entry, which occurs at an altitude between 90 to 60km the heat is radiated away from the hot aeroshell. Heat is prevented from entering the vehicle by layers of reflecting foil and the low conductivity shell support posts. Liquid hydrogen is evaporated in the main tanks, passed through thermal screens to intercept the small residual heat leak and then vented overboard.
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- 27-04-2012, 22:03 #10
we could have done this 30 odd years ago with HOTOL.
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