A Pratt & Whitney closed-loop

A Pratt & Whitney closed-loop hydrocarbon-fueled scramjet propulsion system was successfully tested for the first time at hypersonic conditions at NASA's Langley Research Center. The GDE-2 engine produced data during several runs in Mach-5 conditions in Langley's High Temperature Tunnel.

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