Patent ID: 8505852
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: B64G

Abstract:
1. The reversible aerospace plane comprising: an air intake at a first end of the aerospace plane; a compressor located next to the first end of the aerospace plane for compressing an intake air; a turbine located next to said compressor for driving said compressor; a first heat exchanger disposed in the aerospace plane for cooling the compressed intake air to produce cooled, compressed intake air; a second heat exchanger disposed in the aerospace plane for cooling the cooled, compressed intake air; an engine at a second end of the aerospace plane, wherein the aerospace plane is configured to accelerate in a first orientation and configured to glide and land in a second orientation, wherein the second orientation is substantially a reverse of the first orientation; wherein one of said first and second heat exchangers is configured to use tanked liquid hydrogen as a coolant to condense at least a portion of an oxygen component of an incident air, and a chilled nosecone that is chilled via flashing of the cryogenic propellant whereby the chilled nosecone instills oxygen liquefaction and compression of the ambient air stream at hypersonic speed into a one-step process within the confinements of an infinite boundary layer on the peripheral of the cryogenically chilled air stream.