Comment Re:This is not the first scramjet (Score 2, Informative) 325
No, they just don't like it when a project that cost a fraction (arround AU$1.5 million) of what theirs did suceeded before theirs did, by a bunch of mechanical engineers at a university that nobody knows about. More details about the project are available at the Center for Hypersonics and UQ news.
We had some lectures from the head of the engineering faculty in first year, and he went into a fair bit of detail on how the system worked. Last I heard was that the project has received further funding, but that was shortly after their mostly sucessful trial run (they couldn't find their rocket for a few weeks in the Australian desert). I've heard nothing else about it since, though. But that's probably because all anybody talks about now is mice in space.
We had some lectures from the head of the engineering faculty in first year, and he went into a fair bit of detail on how the system worked. Last I heard was that the project has received further funding, but that was shortly after their mostly sucessful trial run (they couldn't find their rocket for a few weeks in the Australian desert). I've heard nothing else about it since, though. But that's probably because all anybody talks about now is mice in space.
