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Ramjets do live on to an extent, in NASA technological demonstrators but also more interestingly in the SR-71's legendary J58 engines, which switch to from mostly turbojet at low speeds to mostly ramjet at high speeds: the compressor is almost entirely bypassed then[0] and the vast majority of thrust comes from the "afterburner", hence the engine's maximum efficiency being around Mach 3.2.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_J58#/media/F...

parent masklinn 10 years ago

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