Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
Article on the BBC news website
When I worked at BAe in the late 1980s, I spent just under a year on the team modelling possible designs for HOTOL (horizontal take-off and landing). The engine was a hybrid (jet engine then switching to rocket engine) - so the current investment is revisiting this. I was working on the airframe design, not the engines, but I vaguely recall that one of the problems with the engine was managing the entry gases that had to be slowed from supersonic/hypersonic speeds.
When I worked at BAe in the late 1980s, I spent just under a year on the team modelling possible designs for HOTOL (horizontal take-off and landing). The engine was a hybrid (jet engine then switching to rocket engine) - so the current investment is revisiting this. I was working on the airframe design, not the engines, but I vaguely recall that one of the problems with the engine was managing the entry gases that had to be slowed from supersonic/hypersonic speeds.