You misunderstand: I don't care how hard the design problem is. I'm not going to design a turbojet/turbofan engine; that would be stupid. I'm going to buy one.
You misunderstood me -- buying one isn't enough. You have to design an inlet for one, and you most certainly can't buy that. Thing is, the inlet is far and away the most complex part of a ramjet. The only things he has to design that you don't have to are a burner and a nozzle. Those are relatively easy to design.
Ian, OTOH, can't buy one. He has to design his. I automatically win the design competition, because I didn't have to do any work.
Actually, you have to do most of the work he has to do, and he gets a *MUCH* lighter system, which probably saves him enough elsewhere to win.
-p
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