Sander Pool wrote: > > I assume everyone here saw the Discovery Wings show about the Pluto project. > Attempts in the 50s (60s?) to build a nuclear ramjet powered cruise missile.
I didn't see the show, but I heard of the project elsewhere... reportedly the wind tunnel at Marquart Labs where the one actual engine run took place was still radioactive decades later... and in flight there would be no safe way to shut the thing down once it was running (think decay heat...) so it was inherently a single use vehicles: Test runs, as well as aborted attacks, were to end by diving the beast into a deep place in the ocean. (They'd never be able to get the environmental impact papers for _that_ approved these days!) -dave w _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
