Successfully tested the Mach 5 engine

SABER engine - Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine - Combined Air Blowing Rocket Engine that allows the device to travel at 5 times the speed of sound - also known as Mach 5. speed that way, the device only needs 2 hours to travel the entire distance from London to New York, 5,585 km long by the bird. That is, with Mach 5, from Noi Bai airport, it only takes more than 11 minutes to fly to Tan Son Nhat.

This means the SABER engine will help us shorten the time to sit on the plane, even shorter than the process of going to the airport and checking in.

To make it easy to imagine, the Mach 5 is about 50% faster than the world's fastest jet-powered aircraft - the SR-71 Blackbird.

This past week, mankind has for the first time obtained evidence of the existence of an engine that has never existed in human history.

And that's the result of Reaction Engines, founded by Rolls-Royce's thrusting engineers Alan Bond, John Scott Scott and Richard Varvill. This project started 30 years ago and continues to this day. Their original idea was to create an engine that achieves supersonic speeds by quickly cooling off when entering the engine, otherwise the heat generated by friction between the engine and the air will melt the main. it.

Reaction Engines has found a way to solve this problem, which is a very light 'heat exchanger' that can cool the air to -150 degrees Celsius in just 1/20 seconds, allowing the aircraft to operate. traveling at Mach 5 in Earth's atmosphere.

Last week, Reaction Engines tested their heat exchanger system under similar high temperature conditions when traveling at Mach 5 at Colorado Aerospace Port. They have succeeded and achieved a milestone in the development of space travel technology.

The cooling technology developed by Reaction Engines not only improves the jet technology we have in the process of conquering the sky, but also helps to change the face of energy, automobiles, space travel and other industrial processes.

Reactions Engines is expected to assemble the first prototype engine in 2020.

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