Originally Posted by
M2dude
In all my ramblings I've not even mentioned the incredible complexities of arranging and generating the inlet shock system...
I think you already did.
....and how controlling the intake was as complex as any single system that I personally seen on ANY aircraft, old or new. And all this done with slide rules, protractors and the backs of hundreds of cigarette packets, without any mathematical modelling in sight.
You may have mentioned this already in the other 'Concorde question' thread.
(And also some oil lamps and diesel oil, but that's another story).
I suppose you're talking about Casablanca?
Maybe we could add that story here, now that most of us agree an intake
can produce thrust?
CJ