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Old January 23rd 04, 04:09 PM
Kevin Brooks
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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You have been shown video of the engines running without forced air.


Perhaps we're conflating the pulse jet and the ram jet?


But Rob has assured us that the pulse jet is a form of a ram jet, just as

he
has assured us that pulse jets can't run or be started in a static mose


Err...that should be "mode". Not "mose", and not "moose" (having encountered
a couple of those critters up-close-and-personal while trout fishing, I'd be
reluctant to try and insert *any* kind of foreign object in said beast even
if he was standing still).

without forced air. So far his assurances have not generated much
confidence.

Brooks


I thought that the distinction between the two was just that: the
pulse jet could function without forced air, the ram jet couldn't.

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