I cannot isolate any further the kernel of my position.
If the airflow feeding what you term the Ramjet "section" of the J58 is isolated from the internal machinery of the turbojet in toto, there would (technically) be a Ramjet "component" to the engine's power. If the source of this air is the compressor section, you are completely, and patently, wrong. I do not care who endorses the definition, Ramjets operate from passive air, not mechanically enhanced air.
There is bypass air that is directed into the ejector, from forward of the internal part of the Turbojet. It, however, passes through the spike, and also (technically) fails the uninterrupted nature of what has been (classically) the definition of a Ramjet engine.
The important part (to me) of this discussion is how you won't address my very basic point, "enhanced airflow disqualifies the definition".
My worry is not to be accused of being stupid, but that I seem to have failed completely in receiving even an acknowledgement of this most basic definiton.
w/o extraneous data, would you simply say if you understand my position?
You do not need to affirm/deny it.
Last edited by Lyman; 30th Jan 2013 at 15:34.