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While it is fascinating, this is a really long-winded and sort of rambling approach to an explanation of how the J58 worked. Even the Wikipedia page does a better job of describing the engine without all the filler of the author's need to type through his "geek out"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_J58



How is it long winded? I thought it was pretty concise. You could fill books on just that one engine.


What's long-winded is the amount of text that's not actually related to the design and operation of the engine. The information he provided was actually fairly slim but there were a lot of proverbial "oohs and ahhs."


Not to mention that picture with the metal lighting up with the heat and the afterburner on full throttle


All that rambling is just his passion about the topic :)




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