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Old 08-02-2011, 02:33 PM   #22 (permalink)
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...beats walking...
 
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...nope!

...look-up Italy's first jet aircraft, the Caproni Campini N.1; it used a piston engine to "pump" the air into the jet combustion chamber...similar in arrangement to that ducted-fan plane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campini_Caproni_CC.2
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