How do military aircraft like the F-16 achieve supersonic speeds? It’s all thanks to the afterburner. An afterburner is made ...

When the afterburner isn't engaged and the jet is flying at cruising speed, the engine acts as a typical turbojet. It might add an extra 50% of thrust, but pilots have to use the afterburner ...

Both NASA and Lockheed Martin recently released photos of the X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet conducting tests of its afterburner ...

GE Aerospace made public the accomplishments of a particular F404 engine that was flown on three different aircraft over the ...

Airplane engine shutdowns are dangerous, particularly during takeoff. Commercial pilots are trained to deal with engine shutdowns while in flight. Given that commercial airplanes have two engines, ...

For example, while the T-38 Talon's engines produce 2,050 pounds of dry thrust (no afterburner), once the afterburners kick in, it jumps to 2,900 pounds, an increase of 850 pounds of thrust.

Hanwha Aerospace is to develop a range of engines for unmanned air vehicles, including a large engine for medium-altitude, ...

Magdatude is a 1946 Chevy pickup modified with a jet engine. It wasn’t put there for speed. On a rainy September night, the truck rumbled onto the infield of the Rockford Speedway in Illinois ...

The afterburners on the Olympus engines that powered the Concorde supersonic jet added only about 17 percent to that engine’s thrust. For the engines that power modern fighters, the increase ...

An F-16C assigned to Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, crashed in early 2024 when a fan blade broke off in a the 'blind spot' of its engine, an accident investigation board found.

The tests were aimed at verifying the performance of the X-59's General Electric F414-GE-100 jet engine, a modified version of the engine used in Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet flown by the U.S. Navy.