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Originally Posted by RustyLugNut
I remember reading about how the designers of the Japanese Zero fighter fooled with the exhaust stacks to eek out a few more knots of speed at full throttle.
Also, didn't the Mosquito Fighter Bomber of that same time period use radiator heated air to create forward thrust?
This bears investigation if we are to use ICEs .
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I believe that it was the P-51 Mustang which has been reported on with respect to heated, air, coming off the oil cooler producing some thrust.
This couldn't work on a subsonic automobile, as it requires compressibility effects of transonic, or supersonic flow to be present.
The exhaust thrust, I believe, was associated with the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter.