The stato-reactor experienced in laboratory of "jets" of Curtiss-Wright develops, says, a push equivalent to that which would be necessary to propel a supersonic machine to4.200 kKkm.-h. and at 24,000 meters.
This lab - the largest in the United States and probably
of the world - was built in Wood-
Ridge, New Jersey, with the collaboration
technical and financial
read. S. Air Force.
The test bench of the stato-reactor,
steel, nearly 30 m. long,
has fuel pumps
and air compressors that can
debit from 140 to 150 tons of air and
some 22,700 liters of fuel to
time...
The temperature of the gases reaches
should be 2,190 ° C.
cooling of the nozzle by
a large circulation of water.
On the other hand, to mitigate
noises - described as "terrible"
- the exhaust., The gases are
channeled, at their exit, in three
"Silent" of almost 14 m. of
long each.
So, in turn, the Americans
make an important effort, with
very powerful ways, to put
to the point of stato-reactors ("ram-
jets ") domain in which René
Leduc is the first and so far the
alone, flying a plane
only powered by this device.
Like René Leduc, too,
Curtiss-Wright technicians
are convinced that the stato-reactor
will probably be the mode
ideal propulsion for gear
supersonic unmanned
at Mach numbers of 4 or
of 5. Figures as a result
Curtiss- "ram-jet" tests
Wright are also of the same order as those calculated by the engineer
French. . h
A preliminary draft, presented by Curtiss-Wright and shown in the sketch above, indicates that the machine
would be constituted by a fuselage.
nozzle of circular section and carrying a triangular wing of
weak, and in strong fears like, besides, the four
plans of his cruciform empennage
