Scott Ferrin wrote in message . ..
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 06:24:58 GMT, "Franz Geff"
wrote:

Has any other country had success with a Ramjet or Scramjet??? France tried
Hypersonics in the 50s and failed I believe (wasn't it called the Griffon
Aircraft). I have been following many new aerospace developments for a
number of years (namely scramjets and aerospike rocket engines).

Russia and France supposedly launched one on the nose of an SA-5.

Russia supposedly flew a scramjet powered RV on a Topal a month or two
ago.

Not from a Topal, but from the SS-19.

Reference the Russia/France joint IGLA project:

The following papers including the project IGLA (AIAA-2003-5250), can
be found at the following website:

11th AIAA / AAAF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies

AIAA-2002-5250

http://hypersonic2002.aaaf.asso.fr/received.html

http://hypersonic2002.aaaf.asso.fr/papers/17_5250.pdf

Some very interesting papers also appear on the website on the subject
of hypersonic vehicles.

TJ