THINKLINIC

Tag: Innovation

  • The Engine That Cannot Survive Itself

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    Ada Koca
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    The scramjet does not carry its oxygen. It inhales it at Mach 5 and burns it before the air knows what happened. That single fact separates it from every propulsion system ever built, and it is the reason the scramjet remains, two decades after its most dramatic demonstration, an engine that works for ten seconds…