Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!military From: djm@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk (D Murphy) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Jet Engines Message-ID: <27410@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 22 Sep 89 06:52:36 GMT References: <27337@amdcad.AMD.COM> <27376@amdcad.AMD.COM> Sender: cdr@amdcad.AMD.COM Organization: Edinburgh University Chemistry Lines: 20 Approved: military@amdcad.amd.com From: D Murphy In article <27376@amdcad.AMD.COM> gardiner@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (David Gardiner) writes: >From the display at the Air Force museum in Dayton, I understand that >the cruise missile engine uses a special, high energy density fuel. >Can the same engine run on more conventional fuels? Has anyone ever >tried building an aircraft around one? I remember seeing some years ago (on a BBC `new inventions' program called "Tomorrow's World") a new slant on the `man in a can' approach to flight. Basically they had a large dustbin with a cowling at the front housing one of these engines vertically. This provided enough thrust to lift a man, and movement was governed by the `pilot' leaning forward, backward or side-to-side. I've heard nothing more about it. >Or are they built (as I would expect) to be disposable? Like I said - they put it in a bin :-)