[AR] Re: B-58 \ was Ozone etc.
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:54:57 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 21 Sep 2016, John Dom wrote:
For doing it today, the one thing I would wonder about is whether we have
the right engines for it -- sustained high-supersonic speed has not been
a priority for jet-engine design in recent decades...
Eat your hearts out maybe, but Concords flew, not rarely but daily with
passengers at Mach 2 over the oceans. Piece of cake!
Yeah, there were a *few* examples of operational sustained-supersonic
engines -- the Olympus that powered Concorde, the J58 of the Blackbirds,
and the B-58's J79 -- but not many, and they're all 50+ years old.
Henry
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