Jet Engine Technology

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The greatest success in new fossil fuel technology has a distant government-aid basis. The combustion turbine is a stationaiy adaptation of the jet engine. The combustion turbine s development and improvement were aided by government militaiy aircraft programs. However, turbine manufacturers independently developed the electric-power version. 

Cases of the development of proprietary materials for in-house use are found in certain industries. For example, Pratt—Whitney initially developed high-temperature alloys for their own jet engines. Since that time, they have licensed some of their materials technology to other manufacturers, but the market advantage to them early on was significant. 

Thus, hardness, wear resistance, and corrosion resistance have been major properties determining technological applications of electroless Ni(P) in the electronic, aerospace (stators for jet engines), automotive, machinery, oil and gas production, power generation, printing, and textile industries. 

NASP was to be used as an experimental vehicle to test high-risk technologies for Reagan s Strategic Defense Initiative, but also to ferry men and equipment to future space stations more economically than could be done with the Space Shuttle. It would take off like a conventional airplane. Hydrogen-fueled, air-breathing scramjet (supersonic combustion ram jet) engines would push it at speeds of up to Mach 25 to the almost-vac-uum of near space, where rocket power would provide the final push needed to reach a space station. 

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