An afterburner (or reheat in British English) is an additional combustion component used on some jet engines, mostly those on military supersonic aircraft. Its purpose is to increase thrust, usually for supersonic flight, takeoff, and combat. The afterburning process injects additional fuel into a combustor in the jet pipe behind (i.e., "after") the turbine, "reheating" the exhaust gas. Afterburning significantly increases thrust as an alternative to using a bigger engine with its attendant weight penalty, but at the cost of increased fuel consumption (decreased fuel efficiency) which limits its use to short periods. This aircraft application of reheat contrasts with the meaning and implementation of reheat applicable to gas turbines driving electrical generators and which reduces fuel consumption.
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A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet being launched from the catapult at maximum power
Jet engines are referred to as operating wet when afterburning is being used and dry when not. An engine producing maximum thrust wet is at maximum power, while an engine producing maximum thrust dry is at military power.
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Welcome to the Afterburner Challenge!
Well, that's the entire point of the challenge. Make an afterburner.
Everyone gets an upvote. And a spotlight wherever possible.
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I'll be rating it based on SFX, VFX, and fuel consumption rate on dry and wet throttle (?/30). Bonus points if there's Mach diamonds.
Also, it's okay to use a plane of your own. Just follow what it says in the pictures.
This is just a fun little challenge I thought of while taking a dump.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Also, please do put your submission as a successor.
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Specifications
Spotlights
- Rondine 2.6 years ago
- Astro12 2.6 years ago
- TheFlyingHusky 2.6 years ago
- HazerzIsBack 2.6 years ago
General Characteristics
- Successors 8 airplane(s) +94 bonus
- Created On Android
- Wingspan 17.8ft (5.4m)
- Length 38.3ft (11.7m)
- Height 11.0ft (3.4m)
- Empty Weight 5,742lbs (2,604kg)
- Loaded Weight 10,939lbs (4,962kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 5.238
- Wing Loading 59.3lbs/ft2 (289.8kg/m2)
- Wing Area 184.3ft2 (17.1m2)
- Drag Points 1788
Parts
- Number of Parts 24
- Control Surfaces 5
- Performance Cost 248
Aight boys, it's closed. Results are coming up wherever my time fits, as its the weekdays today and I have school.
A bit of an update:
Don't use unlimited fuel. I'll also rate your afterburner based on fuel consumption.
The MiG-21 is just a placeholder. You can totally use anything other than it! It has to be below than 400 parts even with the afterburner combined though.
If you're lazy however, you could just pick where my MiG-21 left off.
@Lake Yes, if you're too lazy to make a demo plane of your own.
@TRD6932 does this mean its ok to use the MiG?
@Hazerz Also, that's just a rough estimate of when it'll end. It could change, depending on what happens to me as time passes.
@Hazerz Check the last photo
@TRD6932 when will this challenge end?
@TRD6932 ok
@Hazerz Two submissions per user.
@TRD6932 is a multiple submissions allowed?
I am so gonna join this
@TRD6932 i designed a FAT engine (3 meters high and wide according to simpleplanes). Its for planes like sr71 maybe.
@TRD6932 hey i made my entry now :)
Put one of my 80 part afterburner rings on this plane lmao
So I kinda made a hyperdrive MiG-21…
Im gonna make mines now :)
I love spending so much time making an afterburning engine and then never use it. Time to buildddd
hMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
The cropped out text in the picture says "Also, you can use anything." I don't know how it cropped out.