Hypersonics
Fighter Pilot Podcast
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The Differences Between a Turbojet Engine and a Scramjet Engine
Air gets taken in the inlet just like in a turbojet engine, but there's not a rotating compressor. So the inlet design actually uses the front of the airplane to compress that air. By Newton's third law, when it pushes out the back, the aircraft goes forward or gets thrust. If you control where that shock goes, you can smoothly move that air into your scramjet.
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