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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Scramjets
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Date: 30 Nov 90 02:34:08 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
>... Sort of like a series
>of small vertical strakes or fins projecting from
>under the wing. This suggests that the combustion
>takes place in the open. Is this true?

It can be done that way; hypersonic shock waves close the open side,
so to speak.  Current designs seem to avoid open sides, perhaps
because it's difficult to inject enough fuel quickly enough without a
surrounding structure to mount injectors on.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry