First flight test
https://newatlas.com/aircraft/worlds-fi ... ight-test/
Great fun
and an article waffling on about a different company using AI (boring) to optimise engines (interesting)
https://newatlas.com/technology/ai-desi ... test-fire/
Aerospike engines
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Nik_SpeakerToCats
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Re: Aerospike engines
Hmm.
Wasn't so long ago, on another forum, I found myself in bitter argument with some-one who sorta said aerospikes were a dead end, too heavy, too hot. Like 'rotary engines', they had no future.
IIRC, he was taken to task by some-one pointing out that eg 3D printing could solve the complex cooling channels, especially for the axially-symmetric type. Cone-shaped to us...
So where where they ??
Well, we now know they're alive and airborne at Peenemunde...
Wasn't so long ago, on another forum, I found myself in bitter argument with some-one who sorta said aerospikes were a dead end, too heavy, too hot. Like 'rotary engines', they had no future.
IIRC, he was taken to task by some-one pointing out that eg 3D printing could solve the complex cooling channels, especially for the axially-symmetric type. Cone-shaped to us...
So where where they ??
Well, we now know they're alive and airborne at Peenemunde...