Their countermeasure for condensation was applying methanol with
countercurrent exchange to minimize consumption.
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Norman Yarvin <yarvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Any numbers for civil airliners are, I figure, "bird strikes that
anyone noticed", or perhaps "bird strikes that caused damage", rather
than bird strikes pure and simple.
I'm also wondering about something even more basic: what are they
going to do about condensation freezing up on the heat exchanger?
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:18:23PM -0800, Doug Jones wrote:
The Ez-Rocket had bird strikes on consecutive flights in July 2002, one atmesses.
Mojave and one at Oshkosh. I know this because I had to clean up the
air
Two dead birds, but no damage to the aircraft, in part because it had no
inlets.first generation space plane like Skylon will only be designed for 200
On 2018-02-18 10:30 AM, Keith Henson wrote:
I asked REL about bird strikes and got this back
Yes, we have considered FOD but do not think it???s a problem. A
flights or so, however bird strike occurs at roughly 10^-5 for civil
airliners (from memory) so the probability of a strike over the vehicle
life is quite small.
and strike the bypass burners rather than the precooler which is tucked
Nevertheless FOD and birds will pass axially along the intake duct
away inside. Since the bypass system is not running for takeoff this will
result in a mission abort rather than loss of vehicle
Keith