An apparatus and method for mitigating the shock front of an aerospace plane flying at hypersonic speeds. The invention employs supercooling driven by the cryogenic power of liquid hydrogen, regenerative evaporation of liquid hydrogen or liquid nitrogen and consequential isothermal compression, to usurp the shock front in totality at Mach 1.
Superconductive hypersonic liquefaction nosecone
24.11.2015
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |