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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Scramjets
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Date: 5 Dec 90 03:15:46 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: elec140@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
>> ...For practical purposes, ramjets are of little
>> interest until speed is at least transonic, and preferably highly
>> supersonic.
>
>If this is true, then where is the distinction between a ramjet and a scramjet?

"Scramjet" stands for "supersonic *combustion* ramjet".  The crucial
distinction is not operating speed, but air velocity in the combustion
region.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry


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