{"id":822,"date":"2014-10-10T16:26:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T21:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2014-10-26T16:37:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T21:37:43","slug":"ramjets-making-mock-of-mach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Ramjets: Making Mock of Mach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/transport\/engines-equipment\/ramjet.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/26\/Jet_Static_Lab_GPN-2000-000377.jpg\/300px-Jet_Static_Lab_GPN-2000-000377.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1946 ramjet test. Image courtesy NASA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The faster you go, the less inclined the air becomes to get out of your way. This simple fact, which stood for years as an impediment to breaking the sound barrier, can also be ingeniously harnessed to create an engine capable of zipping along at supersonic speeds without the fuel weight required by rockets.<\/p>\n<p>In this article, I trace the history, science and engineering behind this revolutionary \u201cflying stovepipe,\u201d from its theoretical birth during the biplane era to its modern military and commercial offshoots. By the time we\u2019re done, you\u2019ll understand\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/transport\/engines-equipment\/ramjet.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How Ramjets Work<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The faster you go, the less inclined the air becomes to get out of your way. This simple fact, which stood for years as an impediment to breaking the sound barrier, can also be ingeniously harnessed to create an engine capable of zipping along at supersonic speeds without the fuel weight required by rockets. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=822\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ramjets: Making Mock of Mach<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,4,73,74,3,13],"tags":[81,925,920,80,5,921,79,919,927,926,99,503,929,928,922,923,924],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-history","category-materials","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","tag-aerodynamics","tag-afterburner","tag-brayton-cycle","tag-fluid-dynamics","tag-inventors","tag-joule-cycle","tag-nasa","tag-ram-pressure","tag-ramrocket","tag-reheat","tag-rockets","tag-scramjet","tag-specific-impulse","tag-tubroramjet","tag-turbojet","tag-turboprop","tag-turboshaft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}