Design and characteristics of supersonic inlet controls for minimizing inlet unstarts.

A method is presented to design a supersonic inlet that will match turbojet-engine air mass-flow requirements over a wide Mach number range. Two types of bypasses were investigated; one had a 360 degree annular cowling and the other had twin slotted ducts. Three models were flight tested. Two of the models, which had bypass ducts, were also ground tested. The bypass models had higher external drags. Both bypass models approximated a typical turbojet-engine air mass-flow requirement between Mach numbers 1.0 and 2.0. The flight tests covered a Reynolds number range from 200,000 to 800,000 and a Mach number range from 0.8 to 1.95.