On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Ian Woollard wrote:
> You might be able to hire an aerospace engineer from somewhere and give 
> him the spec for the ramjet and say- go build. It would probably take a 
> couple of years, but it's still probably cheaper than buying a turbojet- 
> that's what? 10 man years worth?

Don't forget the rent on the combustion wind tunnel (a specialized type --
many wind tunnels can't tolerate engines running within them) he'll need
for testing it.  There's a lot more than two man-years of money needed to
design, build, test, and operations-qualify a ramjet. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
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