Shcramjet
Okay kiddo, so you know what an airplane is right? It's a big machine that can fly in the sky. Well, there's something called a scramjet which is kind of like a super fast airplane.
Now, you know how your toy cars need to be pushed or pulled to move? Well, a scramjet moves on its own, but it needs to be going really really fast first. Like, super duper fast, at least as fast as a rocket.
Once it's going that fast, the air rushing into the engine gets really hot and compressed, kind of like when you blow up a balloon, it gets harder to blow as it gets bigger. The scramjet takes this hot and compressed air and mixes it with fuel so it can keep going fast.
And because it's moving so fast, it's able to go really high and really far, kind of like a rocket or a satellite. People are trying to make scramjets because they could go really fast and could help get people and things to faraway places really quickly.
So that's what a scramjet is, a really fast airplane that moves on its own once it's going super fast, and it could help people travel really far and really fast someday.
Now, you know how your toy cars need to be pushed or pulled to move? Well, a scramjet moves on its own, but it needs to be going really really fast first. Like, super duper fast, at least as fast as a rocket.
Once it's going that fast, the air rushing into the engine gets really hot and compressed, kind of like when you blow up a balloon, it gets harder to blow as it gets bigger. The scramjet takes this hot and compressed air and mixes it with fuel so it can keep going fast.
And because it's moving so fast, it's able to go really high and really far, kind of like a rocket or a satellite. People are trying to make scramjets because they could go really fast and could help get people and things to faraway places really quickly.
So that's what a scramjet is, a really fast airplane that moves on its own once it's going super fast, and it could help people travel really far and really fast someday.