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the art of dumping raw fuel into your exhaust because subtlety is for cowards.
means A device fitted to the exhaust of a jet engine that injects and ignites extra fuel in the hot exhaust stream to produce a sudden burst of additional thrust.
from A plainly literal compound: "after" plus "burner," naming the thing exactly — a burner that fires after the main combustion, in the exhaust. It's an aviation-engineering term that emerged in the jet age of the mid-20th century, when designers needed a word for the device that set the leftover exhaust alight. The British, contrarily, often call the same trick "reheat," which is just as honest and rather more polite.
- fuel cost
- Can triple fuel burn for modest speed gains
- the flames
- Visible shock diamonds glow in the exhaust plume
- also called
- Britain calls it reheat, far more polite
- thrust boost
- Adds roughly 50 percent extra thrust instantly
- endurance killer
- Drains tanks in minutes, used sparingly
f-15 eagle afterburner — military jet engine with 29,500 lbf thrust in afterburner mode, operational since 1976
concorde afterburner — four rolls-royce olympus engines with afterburners enabled mach 2.04 supersonic flight 1969-2003
sr-71 blackbird afterburner — pratt & whitney j58 engines with afterburners powered sustained mach 3.3 flights over ussr in 1960s-1990s