Valveless jet engine with inertia tube

Claim 1

A JET PROPULSION SYSTEM INCLUDIDNG A CASING HAVING INTERNAL WALL MEANS DEFINING A COMBUSTION ZONE AND INLET AND EXHAUST PASSAGES, MEANS FOR INITIALLY IGNITING FUEL IN SAID COMBUSTION ZONE, MEANS FOR INJECTING A GASEOUS FUELAIR MIXTURE INTO SAID INLET PASSAGE AT A VELOCITY GREATER THAN THE SPEED OF FLAME PROPAGATION FOR SAID FUEL-AIR MIXTURE, THE CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA OF SAID INLET PASSAGE ENLARGING TOWARD SAID COMBUSTION ZONE WHEREBY THE PRESSURE OF SAID FUEL-AIR MIXTURE WILL INCREASE AND THE VELOCITY OF SAID FUEL-AIR MIXTURE WILL SLOW DOWN UNTIL IT REACHES THE SPEED OF FLAME PROPAGATION AS IT ENTERS SAID COMBUSTION ZONE, AT WHICH POINT THE FUEL-AIR MIXTURE WILL BE CONDITIONED TO IGNITE, SAID FUEL-AIR MIXTURE INJECTING MEANS INCLUDING AN INERTIA TUBE SUBSTANTIALLY ALIGNED WITH SAID INLET PASSAGE THROUGH WHICH THE FUEL-AIR MIXTURE FLOWS IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO ENTERING SAID INLET PASSAGE, SAID INERTIA TUBE BEING OF SUCH LENGTH THAT THE MOMENTUM OF FUEL-AIR MIXTURE FLOW THROUGH SAID INERTIA TUBE TENDS TO OVERCOME MOMENTARY PRESSURE REVERSES AT THE OPENING OF SAID INLET PASSAGE, SAID INELT AND EXHAUST PASSAGE BEING AT SUBSTANTIALLY RIGHT ANGLES TO EACH OTHER, AND A SMALL SHOCK WAVE DISSIPATING HOLE EXTENDING THROUGH THE WALL OF SAID INLET PASSAGE AT SUBSTANTIALLY THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER OF SAID INLET PASSAGE.