The secretive SR-72 “Darkstar” is Lockheed Martin’s ambitious project to build a Mach 6+ hypersonic ISR and strike aircraft. -Its success hinges on a revolutionary and highly classified Turbine-Based ...

Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) have been flown by Venus Aerospace. They use continuous detonation waves for propulsion and provide 15% efficiency gains (in specific impulse or fuel consumption) ...

A dual-mode ramjet design showed a 3X increase in airflow compared to previously flight-tested hypersonic technology, and was developed and tested in less than 11 months. GE Aerospace reported it ...

Russian scientists continue to work on the development of a supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) engine that is lighter and simpler in design than gas turbines and will achieve hypersonic speed ...

This works so well that one of the key engineering problems of such engines is to design the air inlet to slow down the incoming air to subsonic speed before it heats so much that it melts the engine.

When is an empty tube not an empty tube? When it's a ramjet that uses rotating detonation technology to propel aircraft at hypersonic speeds. A case in point is Venus Aerospace's new Venus Detonation ...

A "flight-weight" supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) has passed inspection by Pratt & Whitney, and will be transported to a supersonic/hypersonic blowdown test complex operated by GASL in ...

Today scramjet propulsion is the subject of continued study, as it appears to be one of the most promising methods of powering hypersonic weapons and aircraft. So, you may be surprised to learn that ...