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How is high speed air intake designed to ensure correct airflow to the engine during subsonic and supersonic flight?

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In regard to a high speed intake, such intakes are designed for airplanes that fly at both subsonic and supersonic speeds.These high speed intakes use variable-geometry inlets that mechanically change their shape when going from subsonic to supersonic flight.

 

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