Development of Supersonic Vehicle for Demonstration of a Precooled Turbojet Engine

Shujiro SAWAI, Kazuhisa FUJITA, Hiroaki KOBAYASHI, Shin'ichiro SAKAI, Nobutaka BANDO, Shouhei KADOOKA, Nobuyuki TSUBOI, Koji MIYAJI, Taku UCHIYAMA, Tatsuaki HASHIMOTO
2009 TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES SPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN  
JAXA is developing Mach 5 hypersonic turbojet engine technology that can be applied in a future hypersonic transport. Now, Jet Engine Technology Research Center of JAXA conducts the experimental study using a 1 / 10 scale-model engine. In parallel to engine development activities, a new supersonic flight-testing vehicle for the hypersonic turbojet engine is under development since 2004. In this paper, the system configuration of the flight-testing vehicle is outlined and development status is reported.
doi:10.2322/tstj.7.tg_27 fatcat:55x42idkd5h6jgjrznjus4ipum