Reaction Engines Ltd

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Reaction Engines Limited (REL) is a British company based in Oxfordshire. The company was founded in 1989 by Alan Bond (lead engineer on Project Daedalus) and Richard Varvill and John Scott-Scott (the two principal Rolls-Royce engineers from the RB545 engine project), the company conducts research into space propulsion systems, centred around the development of the Skylon re-usable SSTO spaceplane. The three founders worked together on the HOTOL ... more
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  • 1989

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Alan Bond

Alan Bond (born 1944) is Managing Director of Reaction Engines Ltd and associated with Project Daedalus, Blue Streak missile, HOTOL, Reaction Engines Skylon and the Reaction Engines A2 hypersonic passenger aircraft. Alan Bond is an engineer, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He worked on...

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Reaction Engines Ltd Headquarters

Building D5
Culham Science Center
Abingdon OX14 3DB
United Kingdom

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