Donuts on a rope coming to European skys

News of an EADS led plan to develop their own pulse detonation engine powered aircraft:

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/eads-launches-ambitious-plan-to-develop-detonation-engine-374527/

Note that DARPA is already happy that the technology is mature…..

Nudge nudge, Aurora, nudge nudge;):D