HOT ROD’s archives are chock-full of brilliant tech reports that truly are timeless. This one, drafted by Jim McFarland for our February 1972 issue, provides an extensive look at how important airflow ...

The High-pressure Combustion Chamber Test Rig 3 at the DLR Institute of Propulsion Technology in Cologne is used as a research platform for the validation of next-generation combustion chamber ...

This combustion concept is characterised by the injection of air-fuel mixtures into the combustion chamber in the form of jets with high flow velocities. The arrangement of the jets results in a ...

Inlet unstart is a particularly critical issue associated with scramjets. That is the upstream displacement or disgorging of the original inlet shock system. Large flow spillage can be caused by the ...