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Old 28-03-2004, 15:39   #4
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Re: Hypersonic Jet Breaks Record

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Originally Posted by Ramrod
A brilliant achievement but I was slightly dissapointed when I found out the plane was unmanned and had been propelled to scramjet speed by rockets.
Catch 22 situation, isn't it. You need hypersonic speeds to get the scram jet to start. So, if you had only a scramjet engine and were at sub-hypersonic speeds . . .
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