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Originally Posted by Jinto
The engines and heat exchangers have to proof its reliability before it can be used. The more complex you make a machine, the more parts can break in even more ways.
To counteract this, each part has to be more reliable than a comparable part in a modern jet engine. This will be the truely ambitious part of the project. But even then such technology might share the fate of the Concorde.
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hisss, boooo ... I mean, we do not for certain that the new design is more complicated, IMO the designers probably have the KISS mentality. I know it has yet to tested IRL, but there are plenty of rea$on$ to make it work.