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Old 20th November 2011 | 18:54
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...if you didn't have a compressor it would be a ram jet. Anyone mentioned stoichiometric yet ? As someone said, need to have the pressure gradient to avoid a bonfire - imagine starting a ram jet at zero speed.
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