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		starpilot on June 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How SR-71 Blackbird Designers Overcame Canonical J... It also dances around the key innovation used to divert the flow from the turbojet core to the ramjet component: the movable (fore and aft) inlet cone. It doesn't happen automatically.

pkennedy on June 29, 2012 [–]

Indeed. The control of shock waves inside the inlet (also via that moving cone) is a very interesting part of the engine, too.

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