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Originally Posted by Autobahnschleicher
What's next, someone brings up RWTHs IKV engine?
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They would have to sort out what your referent might be.
redneck -- Single stage to orbit, like the UK Skylon? I was thinking more along the lines of Jetoptera.
If it exhausts into the central flow does that make it a complicated pulse jet?
Edit: quote: "It's fun to work with people who know what they are doing." Matthew Riley, Astron Aerospace
2nd edit: Okay, I need to get my 3D printer up and running. A proof of concept model seems achievable, but with lost PLA casting techniques, a hubless bicycle wheel motor is within possibility. You couldn't sell them because patents, but one could make one's own.
Since they spin in opposite directions the air flow should be opposed, so a rear wheel motor could blow into 90˚ elbows. ....
with afterburners!