Rolls Royce old Hypersonic aircraft concept

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Hi,

the Rolls Royce Hypersonic transport aircraft concept.
http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1963/1963%20-%200744.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1963/1963%20-%200748.html
 

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"Fig II The same aircraft, pictured in three distinct configurations; this
Rolls-Royce proposal also forms the heading illustration on page 717"
 
Hi,

also Rolls Royce turbo-ramjet.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1964/1964%20-%202565.html
 

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I vaguely remember reading that this was less a proposed aircraft than a conceptual study for the idea of using a surface-burning ramjet to power an aircraft. The primary "engine" would have been the wege-shaped lower surface of the aircraft itself, plus fuel injectors.
 

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