New Rocket Powered Plane Runs on Hydrogen Peroxide

Whats the range and top speed on this thing. Compare to Jim Bede's BD 5 microjet with a top speed of 325 mph and a range of 300+ miles how would the two aircraft rate. See I want to build one that is non air breathing so that I can fly it into space and back to earth again. I would like to have it as small as the BD 5. It would be nice to have something like a BD 5 become a personal transport, one could fly to work, maybe fly to the moon or the International Space Station and back.

Thanks

I was the crew chief and engine designer for the XCOR Ez-Rocket. Let me correct some misinformation-

1) No peroxide was used, only liquid oxygen, isopropyl alcohol, and helium.

2) While Dick Rutan flew for us, his brother Burt had nothing to do with the project. Burt did design the airframe 20 years earlier.

3) Scaled Composites is our neighbor but had nothing to do with the project.

4) It was developed in 2001, retired in 2002, and flew in 2005 at the Xprize Cup.

Wow, Very cool, yet very dangerous, with all the compressed gasses, that things like a bomb lol

that's AWESOME !

Actually thats a bipropellant liquid oxygen alcohol rocket same fuels the German V2 used.

Hydrogen Peroxide as rocket fuel is old as rocketry itself. It is not used widely, because H2O2 cannot be controled as savely as other fuels.

If they aren't as efficient then they SHOULDN'T be used on airliners because that is wasteful. Has nothing to do with greed you idiot.

this air kit is very ugly. very dangers so much fuel under the kit is crazy

Thank you, though it was something like that.

Yes. The Me-163 used a bi-propellant engine with 80% H2O2 oxidizer and a mixture of methanol and other fuels. It was a dangerous plane to fly - read Wikipedia.

very cool. but if the engine isn't as fuel efficent as a conventional jet engine or better, then you will never see it on our commercial planes because of the fat guy that sits on the top of the airline is to greedy.

sheer brilliance.. can someone please mail me the audio track name and creators please.

The engines run on alcohol and liquid oxygen, not hydrogen peroxide. XCOR is not run by either Dick or Burt Rutan. XCOR is not part of Scaled Composites. We are competitors.
The EZ-Rocket is based on a fiberglass kit plane. We removed the piston engine and replaced it with two 400-lb thrust LOX/alcohol engines designed, built and tested by XCOR.
The plane is not a design for the next generation of Reno Racers.

very awesome. Are you combusting the Hydrogen from the peroxide or using an aluminum reaction? Also I didn't hear any thrust when you landed it, are you running out of fuel and gliding in? At any rate looks like you are having a BLAST! AWESOME WORK AND VIDEO!! Thanks for posting it.

Germany use 80% H2 peroxide for V2 rockets. We can only buy 2-3%. So, it is entirely possible that we have not historically explored all the possibilities. I have not considered an IPA or alcohol mix with H2 peroxide, but the alcohol might act as an accelerante.