Posted in Motivation, engines, tagged closeup, gimbal, hardware, ICBM, Titan on Wednesday 2008.06.18 | No Comments »
I forgot to mention earlier, but Jon Goff has had good stuff lately.
Also, check out a nice picture of Titan 1 gimbals (you can click for a big picture but it’s quite a slow site). I’m pretty sure this is the first stage so there is actually another engine behind the one in the picture. [...]
Posted in RLV:s, engines, tagged air breathing, effective exhaust velocity, engine, F-16, F110, isp, J-58, Mach, SR-71 on Monday 2008.04.21 | 4 Comments »
I was not completely happy with the last post’s vagueness so I’m adding more formal treatment here. This long post still ends up lazily speculating around the advantages and disadvantages of air breathing propulsion in the end though.
Air Breather’s Advantage
Effective or apparent exhaust velocity (ISP to some, but that is an old-fashioned troublesome [...]
