Engineering News

Yeah, It's called a Ramjet

They should pull quite a bit of information ^{(thats still not onfidential)} from the SR-71 Blackbird.

"The Avro engine converts sound waves into energy."

Sound waves are energy...but anyway...the article does not say whether or not it uses fuel (in the traditional sense) of any type. Is the author inferring that sound waves are the fuel?

I had a buddy who thought his car could go faster because it produced high intensity sound waves...

...Trunk rattlin', like two midgets in the back seat wrestlin'...speaker box vibrate the
tag...make it sound like aluminum cans in a bag...

so if it flies over a rock concert it will reach ridiculous speeds?

or is it a scramjet?

Avro,,,that rings a bell....Oh yeah, the Avrocar...lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VZ-9_AV_Avrocar

Gives new meaning to "Boom Box".

They've transferred the moving parts out of the compressor stage and into a bigger generator.

Did that really buy anything?

These so-called Technology & Science articles just get worse and worse.

"No moving parts ahead of the compressor" - which does have moving parts and is part and parcel of the engine - and so this engine Has No Moving Parts therefore. Okay, well then, neither does my car. There are no moving parts forward of the front wheels, therefore my car has no moving parts according to this line of reasoning.

This jet engine "..converts sound waves into energy." Aren't sound waves already a form of energy? And from whence do these sound waves come? Some guy duct-taped to that boom up front, shouting "GIDDYUP!"