High speed airplane with turbine-and-ramjet engines in the wing roots

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Project of a high speed airplane of conventional design. Droppable powder-rockets as starting aids, liquid fuel rocket engines in fuselage rear section, turbine-and-ramjet engines in the wing roots, droppable fuel tanks for the rocket engines.




From « The High speed flight of to-morrow — A perspective of its difficulties » by P. Bichar.
Published in Der Flieger in 1949, Volume 2, pp. 3-9.
Translated by John Perl.