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Was this a destructive test? Thing looks like it destroyed itself. (What's with the foil just flying all over the place?)
by nielsbot 3y ago
Was this a destructive test? Thing looks like it destroyed itself. (What's with the foil just flying all over the place?)
- ridgeguy 3y agoSome of the instrumentation wire harnesses were wrapped in foil, which got ripped off by air currents driven by the exhaust plume. Foil wraps shield against heating by IR radiation from the plume. It's cheap but effective.
- MilStdJunkie 3y agoThe sound from these things can literally tear other nearby assemblies apart. Aside from the "clean flow" problem, this is another gigantic engineering hurdle to scaling these things up to a larger size. There's such a thing as too powerful.