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afterburner

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afterburner

Second combustion chamber in a turbojet or turbofan engine, immediately in front of the engine's exhaust nozzle. The injection and combustion of extra fuel in this chamber provide additional thrust for takeoff or supersonic flight; in most cases, the afterburner can nearly double the thrust of a turbojet engine. The jet nozzle must be larger when using the afterburner, so an automatic, adjustable nozzle is an essential component of the afterburner system. Because the afterburner sharply increases fuel consumption and is generally less effective at subsonic speeds, its use is usually restricted to supersonic military aircraft.


afterburner [′af·tər‚bər·nər]
(aerospace engineering)
A device for augmenting the thrust of a jet engine by burning additional fuel in the uncombined oxygen in the gases from the turbine.


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The first Tomcat pilot selected full afterburner and worked to align his fuselage with the other airplane's.
We took off, we immediately went into this supercruise profile which you climb in afterburner, you level off at 50,000 feet, you pull it back out of afterburner, you're cruising at better than 1.
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