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Reaction Engines' precooler tech demo chills 1,000°C air in less than 1/20th of a second

David 18

Re: That's quite hot

"And after some experience with such materials, all I can say is "They're right bastards to machine"

Amen to that, not sure what would be worse, big old turbine blades or the 3mm diameter, hollow, tapered to a razor edge metal to glass seals I used to have to machine to 5 micron tolerances in a former life.

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