British made SABRE jet engine looks to power planes at 5x the speed of sound

[NoXion]

They appear to have gotten rid of the banana-shaped engine nacelles.

 

[editor]

I've changed the baffling title.

 

[Crispy]

Merge with big thread on the topic: UK's Skylon space rocket could be a winner

 

[Pickman's model]

they should do something about the colour scheme

 

[editor]

*merged

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Update:

Super-fast engine set for key tests

The essential innovations include a compact pre-cooler heat-exchanger that can take an incoming airstream in the region of 1,000C and cool it to -150C in less than 1/100th of a second

That's bonkers

 

[Crispy]

That's bonkers

It's amazing (and such rapid heat exchange has applications outside of aerospace).
The heat removed from the incoming air is then transferred to the fuel/oxidiser so it actually *increases* the power of the engine.

 

[kebabking]

they should do something about the colour scheme

Yes. They should apply it to all of BA's fleet.

 

[teqniq]

Super-fast engine tech in new milestone

 

[Crispy]

REL went bust (as is the way for all innovative British engineering projects) but the IP (presumably followed by the staff) has been bought up by Frazer Nash, a UK subsidiary of the US engineering giant KBR. They're working with ESA to build a flight demonstrator.





Not sure it has a real future for spaceflight though. SpaceX have shown that you can reuse nearly all of a rocket with vertical landing on a basic concrete pad. An orbital version would need its own (massive) runway well away from settlements due to the noise so would have huge infrastructure costs. I suspect the more realistic applications will be military

 

[urbanspaceman]

Or for the X-men