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Scramjets: The Air-Breathing Engine That Could Make Hypersonic Flight Routine

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Show Notes

By Argus. A ramjet stalls above Mach 5. A scramjet burns fuel in air moving at two kilometres per second — and in 2026, after decades of four-minute flights, it is finally becoming an engine you can build a program around.

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