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Author Topic: Deal To Develope Nuclear Rocket Engine Signed Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-19-2003 11:53 AM                     The Prez has recently signed this and it has been kept sort of quiet. If they are sucessful at doing this a trip to Mars might happen in the next decade and the trip would only take two months. Is this Star Trek or what????? Here is the link to the article....and it makes one think there might be something there that they are not telling us...... http://www.msnbc.com/news/750150.asp?0dm=C1CMT Mark  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-19-2003 12:32 PM                     The idea of developing nuclear-powered flight engines is not new: I remember several Popular Science and Mechanix Illustrated magazines from the mid to late 60's doing articles about in-development nuclear-powered engines for not only rockets but aircraft as well! Then again these very same magazines were predicting at the peak of 'Wankel-Mania' that Detroit would be 100% converted to the Wankel engine by 1971! -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 01-19-2003 12:37 PM                     I owned a Mazda RX-2 in 1973. The Wankel engine was powerful, and thirsty. It drank gas. I put 35,000 miles on it, before it began drinking oil as fast as gas. Too bad. I sold it.  |  IP: Logged Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-19-2003 01:58 PM                     According to the latest POPSCI Mazda has redesigned the "WANKEL" and it is supposed to be more reliable and efficient.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-19-2003 05:48 PM                     A cousinb of mine had an RX-7 and never had problems with the rotoe seals, or drinking oil. I think by then that it was fixed. I think they ended up using either carbide, or tungsten seals on them. Mark  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-19-2003 06:18 PM                        There was nothing like the site of one of those early Mazda Wankels with blown rotor seals, cruising down the highway creating its own James Bond smokescreen & blinding other drivers. Some of those RX-7's smoked so bad they were a real road hazard. I understand Mazda later fixed the rotor seal problems, but what about improving the gas mileage?  |  IP: Logged

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