Originally Posted by
Feathers McGraw
I suppose that with the exception of the the SR-71 engine installation, no other aircraft had need of an intake control system that maintained performance in such a tight set of constraints.
Yes and no.
Yes, in the sense that just about any aircraft going up to Mach 2 and beyond needs some type of variable intake system.
No, in the sense that most of them have a far less sophisticated intake control system than Concorde or SR-71, with only Mach number and throttle setting as inputs.
The Tornado was originally designed for Mach 2+ and used variable intakes. Legend had it that the Tornado AICS had a family relation with the system on Concorde, but since it was developped by a German firm (Nord Micro), that's unlikely.
Also, most of the later Tornados were limited to Mach 1.3, so the AICS and the ramp actuators were removed.
CJ