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Old 27th January 2015 | 01:23
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It would be wonderful if SABRE works.
The BBC doco on it was very interesting.
IIRC the claim is that the pre-cooler drops the temperature of the hypersonic airflow by 100 degrees in a hundredth of a second.
Seems extraordinary... but then again, may be there was a good reason for the Govt classifying the original RR design back in the day...
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