{"id":30579,"date":"2016-09-28T03:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T10:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/reaction-engines-uk-plans-integrated-hypersonic-engine-tests-by-2020-2021-with-joint-strike-fighter-sized-engine"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:25:12","slug":"reaction-engines-uk-plans-integrated-hypersonic-engine-tests-by-2020-2021-with-joint-strike-fighter-sized-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/reaction-engines-uk-plans-integrated-hypersonic-engine-tests-by-2020-2021-with-joint-strike-fighter-sized-engine","title":{"rendered":"Reaction Engines UK plans integrated hypersonic engine tests by 2020\u20132021 with joint strike fighter sized engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reaction-engines-uk-plans-integrated-hypersonic-engine-tests-by-2020-2021-with-joint-strike-fighter-sized-engine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3808790\/The-radical-reaction-engine-tested-Fighter-jet-sized-4-000mph-engine-New-York-London-two-hours-built.html\" target=\"blank\">Reaction Engines of the UK has scaled back its design for the Sabre engine to bring about a demonstrator that is more affordable and better suited to early applications, including a potential X-plane.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Oxfordshire-based firm has been developing a turbine that combines both jet and rocket technologies to achieve rates five times the speed of sound, to fly anywhere in the world in just four hours.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than aiming for a demonstrator that can achieve more than 150,000 lb thrust, the firm will instead now target an engine size capable of roughly 44,000 lb thrust, according to Aviation Week Network.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/09\/reaction-engines-uk-plans-integrated.html\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/09\/reaction-engines-uk-plans-integrated.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaction Engines of the UK has scaled back its design for the Sabre engine to bring about a demonstrator that is more affordable and better suited to early applications, including a potential X-plane. The Oxfordshire-based firm has been developing a turbine that combines both jet and rocket technologies to achieve rates five times the speed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60245,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30579\/revisions\/60245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}