Definition & Meaning | English word AFTERBURNERS

Definitions of AFTERBURNERS

1. plural of afterburner.

Examples of Using AFTERBURNERS in a Sentence

• As most fighters spend little time traveling supersonically, fourth-generation fighters (as well as some late third-generation fighters like the F-111 and Hawker Siddeley Harrier) and subsequent designs are powered by the more efficient low-bypass turbofans and use afterburners to raise exhaust speed for bursts of supersonic travel.
• Many supersonic military aircraft are not capable of supercruise and can maintain Mach 1+ flight only in short bursts with afterburners.
• The first flight of the XP6M-1 came on 14 July 1955, but early tests showed that the engines were mounted too close to the fuselage and scorched it when afterburners were used, leading to angling the engines slightly outward in subsequent aircraft.
• Marquardt also developed and produced thrust reversers for jet engines, as well as afterburners (which are functionally the same as a ramjet).
• The GE1 was a basic gas generator (compressor, combustor and turbine) onto which a variety of components such as fans, afterburners or other thrust vectoring devices could be added later.
• Supercruise is sustained supersonic flight of a supersonic aircraft with a useful cargo, passenger, or weapons load performed efficiently, which typically precludes the use of highly inefficient afterburners or "reheat".
• The noise from the rocket's afterburners forced the symbiote off Brock, and Spider-Man webbed the creature to the rocket.
• Olds' flight immediately dropped fuel tanks and lit afterburners to engage three MiGs that, although apparently emerging at random, actually had been directed to have the first appear at the flight's "six" (rear) and the next two moments later at its "ten" (left front), presenting one MiG with a tail-shooting solution and tactical surprise.
• Probert made notable contributions to many aircraft technologies, including ramjets, scramjets, vertical takeoff for Harrier jump jets, and reheat (afterburners).

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