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Old 29th November 2011 | 19:11
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The Blackbird used a hybrid engine before hybrids were cool. (IIRC, the engine begins as a turbojet and as it increases in speed, the flow more closely approximates a ramjet by use of valves and moving the nose cone backwards. This picture from a wiki article seems to tell that tale as well).

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