[AR] Re: Glass Rocket Engine

  • From: James Bowery <jabowery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:50:10 -0500

Orbitec had a video of their vortex rocket engine with a clear combustion
chamber to demonstrate how cool the walls are kept.  They apparently have
taken the video of it down.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Lloyd Droppers <lloyd.droppers@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> In various research projects for combustion and mixing clear windows
> are often used, usually in conjunction with some sort of schlieren or
> Raman spectroscopy set up.  Below is a link to a quick summery paper
> on one of the projects less than a decade ago.
>
> http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20050169188.pdf
>
> Lloyd
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Lars Osborne <lars.osborne@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > High speed video of a clear rocket engine made by rocketdyne in the 60's.
> >
> > http://youtu.be/QBV0DED7RYA?t=6m4s
> >
> > Has anyone made a clear liquid engine since?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lars Osborne
>
>

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