{"id":222148,"date":"2020-12-02T13:01:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=222148"},"modified":"2020-12-04T08:23:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T08:23:18","slug":"china-successfully-test-jet-engine-capable-of-mach-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=222148","title":{"rendered":"China Successfully Test Jet Engine Capable of Mach 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">China builds a hypersonic jet engine capable of flying at 16 TIMES the speed of sound that could fly to anywhere in the world &#8216;in two hours&#8217;, Beijing claims<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The prototype is called a Soramjet engine and was tested in a Beijing wind tunnel<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Achieved\u00a0speeds of Mach nine &#8211; the maximum test conditions of the tunnel\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Researchers claim analysis reveals the engine would function up to Mach 16\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Joe Pinkstone \u2013 Daily Mail Dec 2, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A hypersonic jet engine that could travel at 16 times the speed of sound has been successfully tested in a Chinese wind tunnel, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype is called a Soramjet engine and, if ever scaled up and installed into commercial planes, could allow travel to any part of the world in less than two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Beijing who led the project say the engine could be used to power planes that take off from a traditional runway, fly into orbit and land at an airport after re-entering the planet&#8217;s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Should such hypersonic engines ever be mastered, they could also be used as devastating military weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Tests at the JF-12 shock tunnel in Beijing were performed at up to and including Mach nine &#8211; nine times the speed of sound. The speed of sound is\u00a0767mph.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment was a success and the engine was working steadily, the South China Morning Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3111985\/chinese-team-test-jet-engine-able-reach-anywhere-earth-within-2\"><strong>reports<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers\u00a0revealed the revolutionary technology in a peer-reviewed scientific paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1000936120305227#!\"><strong>published <\/strong><\/a>by Jiang Zonglin, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Success at Mach nine was made possible by taking a different approach to the other known form of hypersonic jet engines, known as scramjets.<\/p>\n<p>These are different to traditional turbojet engines seen on current planes and they have no moving parts.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they use their rapid speed to compress the air in front of them and this in turn combusts the fuel, creating propulsion.<\/p>\n<p>However, these engines, which are still in their testing phase and yet to have any real-world implications, have a major flaw which stops them exceeding Mach 7<\/p>\n<p>The reliance on compressing air in front of the engine and using that means the inevitable shockwaves &#8211; sonic booms &#8211; would put the flames out, forcing the engine to cut out.<\/p>\n<p>Soramjets are based on a theory initially put forward by an engineer named Richard Morrison in 1980 who said the shockwaves could be used to ignite the fuel, not only negating the issue scramjet&#8217;s face but turning it into a positive.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the new engine consists of a single-stage air inlet which directs air into a combustion chamber where it ignited the on-board hydrogen fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jiang led a team of experts who set about building a machine that uses this technique from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>It was a success and, unlike scramjets, the new design managed to function at up to Mach nine conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The wind tunnel was unable to replicate conditions beyond this, and there is no lab on Earth yet capable of testing the hypothesis that it could function at Mach 16.<\/p>\n<p>While the findings have been published in a journal, the contents of the paper are to be considered carefully.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed expert not involved in the study told SCMP the publications are vetted heavily to ensure no information on China&#8217;s latest technology is leaked.<\/p>\n<p>This is because of the investment the Chinese government has in the hypersonic programme for its applications as a weapon, which is shrouded in mystery and an avenue the Asian superpower is actively pursuing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-9006435\/China-builds-hypersonic-jet-engine-capable-flying-16-TIMES-speed-sound.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China builds a hypersonic jet engine capable of flying at 16 TIMES the speed of sound that could fly to anywhere in the world &#8216;in two hours&#8217;, Beijing claims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":116633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222149,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222148\/revisions\/222149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}