nuclear powered aircraft

A very good site,and my dear PaulMM spoke about it before, https://whatisnuclear.com/the-story-of-the-atomic-airplane.html https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/aircraft-nuclear-propulsion-program-manned-aircraft-progress-report-1956-1958-video.45325/

June 26 1972 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology is dedicated to ASD and its work.

View: https://x.com/whatisnuclear/status/1886397754143867189 https://whatisnuclear.com/news/2025-02-03-declassified-nuclear-powered-aircraft-progress-update-manned-flight-film.html View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-8q8INxQEY This is an excellent video with lots of information on the...

In early 1950s Pratt and Whitney was working on supercritical water ducted blower aircraft engine. 410 MW thermal energy source was heating highly pressurized water to 1000F. Here is the description of this engine from Aviation Week , December 19, 1960. 2.98 m low pressure air compressor/blower...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2019/10/30/a-breakthrough-in-american-energy-dominance-us-navy-patents-compact-fusion-reactor/#3a23e8971070

In an interview with Discovery aired on the Planes That Never Flew episode about the WS-125, George Kerevan mentioned that the Soviet Union came up with a proposal for a nuclear-powered flying boat weighing 1,000 tons. The 1,000 ton flying boat had a wingspan over over 420 feet and four...

Awesome news in my book this decision. Official website: http://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/index.php

In Bill Rose's book Secret Projects: Flying Wings and Tailless Aircraft, there is mention of an outrageously colossal design for a nuclear-powered flying wing bomber by Lockheed, the L-248-3. The specs for the L-248-3 are as follows judging from what's contained in the book: Length: 89 ft Span...

The Thunderbirds series from the 1960s featured in its first episode a wonderful airliner called Fireflash, which was totally improbable but looked very cool. In the series it crops up in a few episodes in the livery of "Air Terrainean", a sort of mixture of Pan American and BOAC. However, in...

http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/969642-nuclear-powered-aircraft-antisubmarine-warfare

Found at OSTI http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/969600-studies-fourteen-nuclear-powered-airplanes

The Flash Flacon airliner: ORIGINAL CAPTION: The giant aircraft would carry up to 250 passengers at three times the speed of sound (Credit: Oscar Vinals) http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160713-could-this-be-the-first-nuclear-powered-airliner

Futuristic helicopter from the Russian urban fantasy/horror film Temnyy Mir (Dark World) (2010).

The General Electric AC110-2 Nuclear Turbojet was selected by Convair in 1956 to power their Models 23A and 23B nuclear seaplane bombers / mine layers. Layout of the AC110-2 is very similar to the GE XMA-1A, with a single reactor for each pair of turbojets (one pair in the 23A, two pairs in the...

Hello, I know we have some brilliant and experienced engineers here on the forum. I was wondering if you guys could advise me about solutions to a problem. The goal is a nuclear powered airship. The reactor is on a separate balloon so that distance can act as shielding. The problem is that the...

According this Source http://atomic-skies.blogspot.be/2013/04/propulsion-nucleaire-aeronautique.html#more the french SNECMA work on Nuclear Aircraft engine called "BRENDA" A gas-cooled reactor, using ceramic-clad enriched uranium oxide fuel and would be moderated by beryllium oxide. 1 MWth...

You may have already seen this at http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=872 Attached is a picture of what looks like radiation doses around the nuclear engine. My quick conversion gives me 1000 Gy/hr in zone I and 5 Gy/hr in zone VIII. Could somebody knowledgeable check these...

while reading of Mr. Nozette unfortunate ending... http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/03/sandia_drone.html http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/sand-uav.pdf

Lockheed nuclear-powered bomber project (CAMAL contender), very different from alleged designs previously shown and found in: HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON...

Just put up a new article at RetroMechanix.com on these bizarre Douglas nuclear-powered transport studies which appear to use components of the C-133 Cargomaster: Features two hi res blueprints and 3 configurations; check it out! Details on them are limited, so if you have additional...