Hi,
I don't know if this has been done or attempted before but I was thinking about building a rocket propulsed by a jet engine. I know there are already model jet engines on the market used in model planes... but I was more thinking about building myself the jet engine so that it can be built directly into the rocket so that the rocket itself would be the center of the jet engine, the compression chamber would be surrounding it and the combustion chamber would be at the end of the rocket where the solid motor is...
Here's what my rocket would look like:
The rocket at the center could be detachable from the jet engine so that I could install the solid motor and prepare the rocket for launch...
So what do you think? Would it be feasible? Would it perform better than a standard rocket or would the jet engine add too much drag?
Thanks
Stéphane Ross
I don't know if this has been done or attempted before but I was thinking about building a rocket propulsed by a jet engine. I know there are already model jet engines on the market used in model planes... but I was more thinking about building myself the jet engine so that it can be built directly into the rocket so that the rocket itself would be the center of the jet engine, the compression chamber would be surrounding it and the combustion chamber would be at the end of the rocket where the solid motor is...
Here's what my rocket would look like:
Code:
/\
|| <--- Nose cone, payload and recovery system
||
|-||-|
|-||-| <--- Compression Chamber
|-||-|
\ || /
/|!!|\ <--- Solid motor (center)
/_|\/|_\ <--- Fins (left & right) and combustion chamber (center)
The rocket at the center could be detachable from the jet engine so that I could install the solid motor and prepare the rocket for launch...
So what do you think? Would it be feasible? Would it perform better than a standard rocket or would the jet engine add too much drag?
Thanks
Stéphane Ross