Lyman, I give up. It's obvious from your last post that you have no understanding of first principles. Should you reread my last you will see where it says,
the engine is never completely in a pure ramjet mode due to the fact that the fi rst stages of compression are present before the mass fl ow is bypassed to the afterburner
The term "partial ramjet" has been used so often in this discussion that I thought you may have grasped the concept.
