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 ...f speeds is an enormously demanding task.
Powerplant test activities are greatly influ
enced by the available ground-rig capability.
The NASP team has already found itself
limited in what can be achieved in US
high-speed windtunnels. If the programme
is to reach fruition then either US research
establishments, such as NASA, will ha...
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of Aeronautics and Astronautics
(AIAA), in Orlando, Florida in
late October.
What became crystal clear
was that the USA feels little
need for overseas input to its
National Aero-Space Plane
(NASP) pro
gramme, at least
until the
planned X-30
technology dem
onstrator is fly
ing. Officials
were careful not
to rule out the
possibility but
left little doubt
that US solu
tions to th...
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n the US National AeroSpace Plane
(NASP) community they use- the ex
pression "hero hardware". It refers to
a select list of exotic materials which
meet the ferociously demanding criteria for
potential use on the X-30 aerospaceplane...
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 ...rth
coverage of everything that is interesting in
a 2-4h block time". The argument might
have been persuasive at one time but is less
attractive in today's climate.
There are other difficulties. NASP offi
cials are quick to stress the spin-off benefits
of their project. At the same time they
worry that the specific goal of flying the
X-30 may be blurred if the programme is
flattened into...
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 ...EADLINES
Engineers measure
NASP over Mach S
BY GUY NORRIS
IN LOS ANGELES
Engineers working on the US National Aero-Space
Plane (NASP) project are
claiming a world first by suc
cessfully measuring positive
thrust produced...
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 ...ng established under a
$9 million contract from the US Depart
ment of Defense and NASA and is geared
to produce structural components for
what would have been the X-30 National
Aero-Space Plane (NASP) single-stage-to-
orbit test vehicle, which has now been
scaled back (Flight International, 7-13
July). Textron-owned machinery, valued
at $1.2 million, and $3.8 million of
Government-furnish...
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 ...USINESS
Funds needed for US X-30 NASP
BY KIERAN DALY
IN WASHINGTON DC
The head of the US National AeroSpace Plane (NASP)
programme, Robert Barthelemy,
is preparing for a lengthy cam
paign to secure adequate funds,
but says the...
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 ...ata general manager C P
Joshi expects the company to
set up a service centre in the
Bombay area in 1995, with a
manufacturing centre to be set
up three to four years later. •
Scramjet tested as NASP is phased out
Fuelled tests of a subscale supersonic-combustion
ramjet (scramjet) were begun
at NASA Langley, Virginia, in
mid-July in the final phase of
the defunct X-30 National
Aero-Spac...
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 ...mme in 1972.
The SDIO selected the highly ambitious
SSTO concept as an answer to the present
high cost of space launches and to the slow
development and progress of the National
AeroSpace Plane (NASP) and the Advanced
Launch System, now called the National
Launch System (NLS).
Clearly, however, the SDIO has become
confident about the SSTO concept as a
result of technical advances. These ...
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 ...s mission?
• Cargo Shuttle first flight
Rafale ACT enters service (France)
Indian LCA enters service
* Freedom permanently manned
Eurocopter Tiger enters service
;— * Galileo enters
Left: X-30 NASP Jupiter orbit
t ICAO phased ban on Chapter 2 aircraft begins?
Eurofighter EFA deliveries begin
Hermes spaceplane glide tests
Soviets launch Mars sample-return mission?
, X-30 NASP first flig...
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 ...t, which would not need to fly
above 50km, and so-called trans-atmospheric
vehicles, which could make the jump from the
airbreathing regime into orbit, at 240km.
The US National Aero-Space Plane (NASP),
cancelled in 1994, would have needed a rocket
anyway for its pull-up manoeuvre and to "circu
larise" the orbit, says former NASP technology
development director George Orton.
The USA learn...
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 ...atest growth will
continue to be the Far East
(8-9% annually), although the
fastest-growing region will be
Central and East Europe (over
10%), but from a relatively
small traffic base. Traffic
NASP completes scramjet tests
The US National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) national pro
gramme office has completed
the first of a series of scale
scramjet engine tests at flight
conditions simulated ...
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 ...ar
bon-fuelled supersonic-combustion ramjets
(scramjets) for Mach 4-8 missiles.
This is an effort to continue US hyperson
ic research following cancellation of the X-
30 National AeroSpace Plane (NASP) and
follows the Air Force's decision not to fund
the NASA/USAF HySTP scramjet flight-
demonstration programme. Instead of the
five-year, $400 million, HySTP programme,
NASA and the USAF plan...
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It is understood that the
GAO report also accuses Israel
of diverting Arrow technology
for use in its Jericho ballistic
missiles, without receiving
Washington's blessing. •
Five-year delay for NASP
NASA and the US Air Force have delayed by at least
five years a decision on
whether to build two X-30
National Aero-Space Plane
(NASP) flight-research vehicles
while they both continue to
...
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 ...sche Airbus says: "Hybrid
laminar flow promises specific
fuel saving advantages of up to
20% on transonic transports if
wing, nacelles and empennage
are laminarised".
Textron wins contract
for NASP composites
Textron Specialty Materials is to
establish "the world's first dedi
cated titanium-matrix composite
production facility" under an
almost $9 million contract from
NASA and the US ...
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 ...ft, not expected to enter
service before 1998, the air force
is receiving 45 Mirage F.lCTs
(interceptor aircraft upgraded
for a ground-attack role), the
Mirage 2000 D and possibly the
P&W TESTS NASP SCALE ENGINE
Pratt & Whitney has tested a one-eighth-scale engine for the US
National AeroSpace Plane (NASP) at a simulated Mach 5 for 30s. The
photograph shows the ramjetJscramjet used in the...
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 ...avionics
technology and vehicle management,
derived from the F-18, F-15 and AV-8B.
Aerojet propulsion division will provide
the gaseous oxygen and hydrogen reaction
control systems, derived from NASP
technology, and, with Pratt and Whitney
(P&W), will design the DC-Y engine,
based on a cryogenic modular platelet
engine. Martin Marietta will be responsible
for cryogenic ground operations ...
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 ...ice with some 350 operators
around the world. •
Hypersonic tests
needs examined
The USAF Systems Com mand's Arnold Engineering
Development Center (AEDC)
has set up a National Aero-
Space Plane (NASP)/Freejet
Task Force to examine likely
hypersonic propulsion test
requirements.
The task force will be part of
Sverdrup Technology, the pro-
Auxiliary Power Interna tional (APIC), the joint
...
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 ...s plans for its future twinjets. P 32
NEXT WEEK
Bob Pond's famous Pond Racer is described in
Flight International's end-of-year issue, which
also includes Uncle Roger's Christmas Quiz.
BUSINESS
NASP chief fights for funding
BAe sales team to tour Iran
Lucas wants Deutsche Airbus link
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SPACEFLIGHT
Atlas 2 launched successfully 16
Italians plan mini modules for Freedom
Japan's J-ERS t...
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 ...8m high,
and powered by eight to 12 liquid-oxygen
and liquid-hydrogen engines 85% rated
power, imposing an initial acceleration of
just 1.3g. Conventional cryogenic propel-
lants were chosen over NASP-type slush
hydrogen to simplify the launch processing.
The propellants have to be heavily insulated
so that they can be called upon at the end
of the Delta Clipper mission, to power the
same...
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