Chapter 515 (1/2)

Compared with the pulse detonation engine, which is unfamiliar to them, their company is more confident in this kind of more traditional engine, and they believe that the potential of variable cycle engine in the future is also very large, absolutely. Based on this, they have developed and produced their own aerospace aircraft engine.

In this regard, the X Aerospace formula and the bald eagle are looking forward to it. Of course, it is not a simple thing to develop the aerospace aircraft engine based on this variable cycle engine. According to the inference of their company experts, it will take at least five to ten years.

Therefore, according to the current situation, even after the successful test flight of their aircraft, the variable cycle engine on the aerospace aircraft can only be used in the atmosphere, and the pulse detonation rocket engine will be used as the power outside the atmosphere.

At this time, after taxiing for nearly 3 kilometers, the huge plane finally pulled up its nose slowly.

Although the weight of the aerial plane is very heavy, and the weight of oil and so on has reached four or five hundred tons, because the engine used by the aerial plane in the atmosphere is the high thrust variable cycle engine newly developed by their company, and the thrust in the atmosphere has reached more than 40 tons, so the ground taxiing distance of this aerial plane is very obvious when taking off, Compared with the Phoenix series of Tiangong technology, it is much shorter.

However, after the plane took off, from the speed of the plane away, it is obvious that the acceleration speed of the overhead plane is far from being compared with the Phoenix series of Tiangong technology.

After all, when the Phoenix series engine outputs the maximum power, the speed from zero to Mach 1 can take less than one minute. Of course, the premise must be that the personnel in the aircraft can withstand it.

However, the speed of the space shuttle manufactured by X space company is much slower, and it takes at least three to five minutes to reach the sonic level.

Although the SkyPlane is far from comparable to the Phoenix Series in terms of speed-up, the people at the airport, including the senior management of their company and official personnel, are full of smiles.

The successful take-off of the first flight of the aircraft has a great morale boosting effect for them. A few minutes later, the overhead aircraft successfully landed on the airport runway, and the ground service and technicians on the ground naturally immediately carried out a series of inspections on the overhead aircraft.

Because of the impact of the previous research and development of aerospace aircraft by paste technology, they are also preparing to conduct a second test flight of the aerospace aircraft in three days, and this test flight will not only carry out supersonic and hypersonic test flights.

Even in order to show the strength of their company, they are going to fly in three days.

However, the atmosphere boasting flight here does not mean that the aircraft is ready to fly in space in three days and let the overhead aircraft enter the earth's low earth orbit. It is just ready to let the overhead aircraft fly directly out of the atmosphere at ultra-high speed of sound, turn off the variable cycle engine of the overhead aircraft, and do not start the pulse engine on the overhead aircraft, When the altitude of the space plane reaches the limit, let it return to the atmosphere, and finally start the engine to return to them.

The purpose of doing so is to test the state of the overhead space plane when flying out of and re entering the atmosphere. After all, for an aerospace plane.

Fly out of the atmosphere and re-enter the atmosphere. Data is very important.