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Old 2nd Feb 2013, 08:04
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CliveL
 
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Lyman,

The bleed scheme is not Ramjet, nor does it create one, even partially.
I definitely do not want to get involved in all that again !

I will just say that nobody has ever claimed that the cooling bleed flow was some sort of ramjet - it cannot be so, if only because there is no burner anywhere in the stream. What others have said is that the designer of that bit of the engine regarded the compressor bleed being fed back into the jetpipe downstream of the turbine and then exposed to afterburning as having some of the features of a ramjet, and he chose to describe the engine as a turbo-ramjet or partial ramjet.

That's fine by me - it was his engine, and as Juliet said "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"

Brian

I recognised your position - the semantics came from the other side

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