Re: Airplane crash -Reply

[xat@inel.gov (Alden Tschaeche)]

Dan Burnfield wrote:
> 
> Les, I know several people who worked on the Aircraft
> project.  They tell me it never did get off the ground, as was
> said previously there were tests completed but the idea of a
> reactor driven plane was never actually put into practice.
> Further, the Navy never would have consented to the use of a
> naval reactor for the engine.  I confirmed this E-mail with
> someone who was actually a design engineer on the project.
> 
> Btw the hanger and the shielded train that were going to be
> used for the plane were still at Idaho as of a 1990.
> 
> Dan

I worked on the ANP (aircraft nuclear propulsion) project in the 1950s. 
I never hear of such an incident as Les described. Although I didn't
know everything about the ANP project, I think I would have known about
such an accident.  Al Tschaeche xat@inel.gov (until 2/28/97)