Bruce Simpson wrote:
On 6 Mar 2004 18:07:31 -0800, (Eric Moore)
wrote:

If it can't be used as a propulsive source, then what CAN it be used
for?

Right now -- not very much, if the published results are anything to
go by :-)

Aviation Week has an article this issue about the Air Force Research
Laboratory's Combustion Science Branch, which plans to test-fly a Scaled
Composites LongEZ sportplane with a four-cylinder PDE in lieu of a
conventional engine. Sounds like they think it will work, though it's going
to be a loud SOB. And they basically admit that they don't see this as a
practical operation: the plane will only make a few flights and nothing
cross-country. But it's a start.

I think these are the same people:

http://www.pr.afrl.af.mil/divisions/...News/news.html


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