Patent ID: RE39796

Claim:
A jet engine which produces a supersonic stream of air, said engine comprising: a structure adapted to provide a compression ratio sufficient to produce a supersonic thrust; an air intake end and an exhaust end; said exhaust end having a partition that divides said an exhaust end stream into a first side and a second side such that a streams, the first stream exits said exhaust end on said first side and a second stream of heated air exits said exhaust end on said second side; a combustion chamber for heating adapted to heat said first stream such that said first stream is expelled from said exhaust end of said engine to produce said supersonic thrust; and being supersonic; and a heating control mechanism adapted to heat said second stream such that said second stream is expelled from said exhaust end of said jet engine to produce a subsonic thrust adjacent to said first thrust and thereby prevent Mach waves from said supersonic thrust to control at least one of temperature and velocity of the second stream such that the second stream is subsonic .