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starpilot
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It also dances around the key innovation used to divert the flow from the turbojet core to the ramjet component: the movable (fore and aft) inlet cone. It doesn't happen automatically.
pkennedy
on June 29, 2012
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Indeed. The control of shock waves inside the inlet (also via that moving cone) is a very interesting part of the engine, too.
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