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Hermeus Hypersonic Aircraft – Real Engineering [video]

11 pointsby tuanx5about 1 year ago

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superkuhabout 1 year ago
Nope. The problems of heat loading from shockwave impingement sites has not been solved and probably won&#x27;t be. The only things that go hypersonic do so above the thickness of atmosphere required for generating lift&#x2F;air-breathing, or do so only very briefly. And almost always they are simple conical design rockets with no shockwave impingement sites. When you bring in engine inlets as shown in the the shockwave impingement sites will be on the craft frame and the heat load too great to dissipate or handle with even advanced materials.<p>Hypersonic and air-breathing are mutually exlusive. It&#x27;s crazy how much effort is being spent on this pipe dream for propaganda purposes. Also surprising none of the engineers have explained this to the project managers. But I guess that&#x27;d cut off the grant money.