At takeoff and again when Concorde zoomed from Mach 1 (the speed of sound) toward Mach 2, raw fuel was injected into the engine exhaust, providing a powerful boost. This afterburner system was ...

The afterburner has been used in a few commercial jets as well. Most famously, of course, Concorde used afterburners for ...

In new photos, the X-59 performs afterburner tests at Lockheed Martin's legendary Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, ...

with the production Tu-144S requiring an afterburner on its Kuznetsov NK-144A engines just like the Concorde, before the revised Tu-144D removing the need for afterburners with the Koliesov RD36 ...

That aircraft, F-BVFC, zoomed in and landed with full reverse and later took off with full afterburner as I watched ... you could feel Concorde slice through the air and this in itself made ...

The last Concorde flew over 20 years ago now ... The space agency recently announced it had run its X-59 engine with maximum afterburner for the first time. The flight path that the Black Hawk ...