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The US Air Force is expected to sanction a new round of studies into combat turbofan engines equipped with a pulse detonation afterburner PDA in place of a reheat system after promising studies of a conceptual device with a simple divergent no
adidas samba og zzle.Tests are being carried out at the Turbine Engine Division of the US Air Force Research Laboratory in Ohio and are based on earlier studies of a conceptual PDA in which concentric annular passages have been placed in the afterburner. The PDA consists of a rotary valve attached to the engine low or high pressure shafts through a gearbox, and is based on some of the most promising pulse-detonation engine configurations being studied for aircraft, missile and reusable launch vehicle applications. Initial studies had disappointing results and the predicted performance of the PDA-equipped engine fell short of the same turbofan with a conventional afterburner. These tests were made without an engine nozzle, so a new series tested a divergent nozzle with three exit to throat area ratios. Area ratios of 1.38, 1.71 and 2.49 were tested with nozzle divergent angles of 8掳, 14掳 and 25掳 respectively.Using computational fluid dynamics, the test team showed engine performance improved with increasing nozzle area ratio. They also showed that the PDA-equipped engine was only capable of outperformi
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adidas campus 00s e area ratio of 1.71. The team warns, however, that engine weight and volume increase with greater Qwmn Stork wins upgrade on Dutch air force transports
EXCLUSIVE: The London-based festival teams with MPI Media and Dark Sky Films to find new genre voices.Horror Channel FrightFest has launched a scheme to find new genre writers with distribution company MPI Media and their sister production company Dark Sky Films.The initiative, called New Blood, aims to fi
owala usa nd horror writers and nurture their projects from script to screen. Screen International is the official media partner on the initiative.MPI/Dark Sky Films, which produced and distributed The Innkeepers, Starry Eyes, Stake Land and It Stains The Sands Red, is searching for ideas that can be developed into feature films budgeted below $1m for an international market.The sho
owala rtlisted applicants will be mentored by industry experts including Travis Stevens, producer of Starry Eyes and We Are Still Here; actor, producer and horror icon Barbara Crampton; actor and director Dominic Brunt; and Giles Edwards, MPI Medias head of acquisitions and development.The New Blood event will be held at the Rad
owala isson Hampshire Hotel on August 23, the opening day of this years FrightFest, which runs until August 28 in London.Applications are open now. Check out Frightfest.co.uk/newblood for more details.Giles Edwards, MPI Medias head of acquisition and development, said: We are looking for original scripts or treatments for feature films which would appeal both critically and commercially to a global audience hungry for bold, diverse new voices in the realm of daring, thrilling, fiercely entertai
