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<span style="font-size: small;">Sabre engine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The Oxfordshire-based firm has been 
developing a turbine that combines both jet and rocket technologies to 
achieve rates five times the speed of sound, to fly anywhere in the 
world in just four hours</span> </span></div>
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'Fighter jet' sized 4,000mph engine that could go from New York to London in under two hours to be built</h3>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Plans for a
 revolutionary hypersonic propulsion system have now taken a big step 
toward the construction of a ground demonstrator – but at roughly a 
quarter the size of the original vision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Reaction
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about a demonstrator that is more affordable and better suited to early 
applications, including a potential X-plane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 Oxfordshire-based firm has been developing a turbine that combines both
 jet and rocket technologies to achieve rates five times the speed of 
sound, to fly anywhere in the world in just four hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Rather
 than aiming for a demonstrator that can achieve more than 150,000 lb 
thrust, the firm will instead now target an engine size capable of 
roughly 44,000 lb thrust, according to <a class="" href="http://m.aviationweek.com/technology/reaction-engines-refines-hypersonic-engine-demonstrator-plan" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Aviation Week Network.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In
 the new plans for the Sabre demonstrator, researchers will target a 
smaller engine similar in size to the F135 engine for the F-35 joint 
Strike Fighter (JSF).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Such a
 system, scaled back due to the slowness of funding, could be used in 
multistage vehicles or hypersonic craft the size of an X-plane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘It
 is now more affordable, more rapid to execute and will potentially find
 its first application quicker,’ Reaction CEO Mark Thomas told Aviation 
Week Network.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘It’s
 a quarter of Sabre, effectively. In an application for something like 
Skylon, the engine would have four combustion chambers connecting to the
 single nozzle, a bypass system and the same turbomachinery, intake and 
heat exchanger.</span></div>
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In the new plans for the Sabre 
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to the F135 engine for the F-35 joint Strike Fighter (pictured)</div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>FUTURE OF FLIGHT? HOW THE SABRE JET ENGINE WORKS</b></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">A model of the revolutionary Sabre engine is pictured  </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 revolutionary Sabre engine could allow aircraft to take off from a 
runway and accelerate to five times the speed of sound, before switching
 to a rocket mode, propelling it into orbit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Sabre engine works by burning atmospheric air in combustion chambers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It then uses the heat to turbo-charge the engine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">At
 the moment, rockets have to carry liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen to 
power them and the cost of carrying this heavy fuel is expensive. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 new engine creates its own liquid oxygen by cooling air entering the 
engine from 1,000°C to minus 150°C in a hundredth of a second – six 
times faster than the blink of an eye – without creating ice blockages.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The revolutionary Sabre engine could 
allow aircraft to take off from a runway and accelerate to five times 
the speed of sound, before switching to a rocket mode, propelling it 
into orbit. A computer generated image of the ground demonstrator is 
pictured.  <i>dailymail</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This
 new class of aerospace engine is designed to enable aircraft to operate
 from standstill on the runway to speeds of over five times the speed of
 sound in the atmosphere. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It
 can then transition to a rocket mode of operation, allowing spaceflight
 at speeds up to orbital velocity, equivalent to 25 times the speed of 
sound.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘There
 is a view that you could modularize the engine to a far higher degree, 
so that you could have four compressors and still have a large heat 
exchanger. From this point onward you could go completely modular, so if
 you could demonstrate one element, then it is all about integration.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Along
 with a JSF-sized engine for the ground demonstrator, the firm plans to 
solve the power gap between air-breathing and rocket engines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">While the engine is still in the design phase, the firm plans to see three main test phases stretching into the 2020s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It’s
 hoped that the first test will take place within the next 12-15 months,
 the CEO tells AWN, with a focus on the heat exchanger and the core.</span></div>
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Rather than aiming for a demonstrator 
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Here, a concept of the <i>Skylon 
spaceplane</i> using the engine is shown. But now, Reaction Engines Ltd has 
scaled back its design for the Sabre engine to bring about a 
demonstrator that is more affordable and better suited to early 
applications, including a potential X-plane. <i>dailymail</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Then, the team will move on to the integrated engine tests in 2020-2021.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 system will undergo sea-level testing, and researchers will simulate 
high velocity air by heating the air flow. And, they will run wind 
tunnel tests to assess flow conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In the third phase, the firm is looking toward concepts of an X-plane or flight demonstration aircraft to put it to the test.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 core will eventually be tested in the UK, meaning Reaction will need to
 build a test facility with a hydrogen/air breathing preburner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In July, it was announced that the European Space Agency has invested $11 million toward the development of the engine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Along
 with this, Reaction Engines announced that it had secured over $66 
million in funding from the British government, with more than $55 
million from the UK Space Agency, and the ESA contribution acting as the
 final piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">At
 the moment, rockets have to carry liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen to 
power them and the cost of carrying this heavy fuel is expensive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 new engine creates its own liquid oxygen by cooling air entering the 
engine from 1,000°C to minus 150°C in a hundredth of a second – six 
times faster than the blink of an eye – without creating ice blockages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This
 allows the engine to run safely at much higher power than is currently 
possible, without the risk that it will overheat and break apart. </span><i>dailymail</i></div>
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