Scram uses?

Richard Schumacher wrote in message ...

I was about to write "cruise missle", but hell: why would the
military want a vehicle whose propellant is extraordinarily
difficult to store?


X-43c was to have used liquid hydrocarbon as fuel:

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/...r_031120a.html

...but I've heard that it has now been cancelled.

A number of other players (P&W, etc.) are working on HC-fueled
scramjets, either as fuel directly or more probably re-formed in
flight to something that burns more readily. See:
http://www.aviationnow.com/content/ncof_bk/ncfn12.htm

And note that GASL has already flow a hydrocarbon-fueled scramjet
projectile: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/scramjet-01a.html.
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Andrew J. Higgins