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SABRE has been a pipe dream for at least 6 years, Reaction engines are a con just like bloodhoundSSC. UK engineering projects like this are trash money sinks.
by kingkongjaffa 9y ago
SABRE has been a pipe dream for at least 6 years, Reaction engines are a con just like bloodhoundSSC.
UK engineering projects like this are trash money sinks.
- robin_reala 9y agoI’m not sure how Bloodhound is a con? It’s a record attempt with little practical application apart from attempting to enthuse new engineers, but it’s never been marketed as more than that.
- kitd 9y agoMore than that, it is run by Richard Noble, who has already taken one project from plan to world land-speed record.
- Lio 9y agoTotally agree. Richard Noble originally set a new land speed record with Thrust2 in 1983. Thrust2 held that record till 1997 when ThrustSSC, another car he developed, broke it again. ThrustSSC still holds the world landspeed record. If anyone is going to break that record my money is on them doing it in Richard Noble’s new car, BloodhoundSSC.
- outworlder 9y ago6 years is not a meaningful amount of time for a "pipe dream".
- kitd 9y agoI think OP is thinking of HOTOL, which could justifiably be described as a pipe dream. RE is the result of taking the most practically implementable parts of HOTOL, ie the engines, and develop them properly. It's still ground-breaking stuff and I'm sure it will take a while yet, but the potential is definite, unlike HOTOL.