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Venus Aerospace in Pursuit of Detonation-Powered Hypersonic Flight

Aviation Week reports, “Rotating detonation engines have huge potential for realizing efficient high-speed flight, but they are proving fiendishly difficult to get right. In the five short years since focusing on the concept, Andrew Duggleby, chief technology officer and co-founder of the pioneering hypersonic propulsion systems developer Venus Aerospace, says he has learned that five key steps are required to make a detonation engine work.”
Full Story (Aviation Week)