There are only a handful of jets flying today that can supercruise -- that is, achieve supersonic speeds without using their ...

The F-22 Raptor is the world's best fighter plane, according to the U.S. Air Force. It's the result of a collaboration among ...

The B-1B Lancer, the U.S. Air Force’s only supersonic bomber, boasts a top speed of Mach 1.2 (900+ mph) despite its hefty 477 ...

The Pratt & Whitney F135 is an afterburning turbofan engine developed for the Lockheed Martin F-35 "Lightning II." The engine has two variations: the Conventional Take-Off and Landing (CTOL ...

Image credit: Aerion GE designed the F101, their first turbofan engine with an afterburner, to power the Rockwell B-1 Lancer strategic bomber in 1970. Even though the B-1 itself suffered through ...

Its afterburning turbofan engines produce more thrust than any current fighter engine. The F-22 is the best in the game, but it's still not perfect. Major updates are planned to modernize the ...

The Northrop YF-23, nicknamed "Black Widow II," was a stealth fighter prototype developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s ...

Russia’s air force is considered one of the stronger fleets in the world, sporting advanced aircraft like the MiG-35 Fulcrum ...

The Lightning II is part of the fifth generation of fighter aircraft, incorporating the newest stealth technology and avionics Powered by the Pratt & Whitney F135 afterburning turbofan engine ...

Figure SM5.1: Station numbering for mixed-flow turbofan engine with afterburner. Figure SM5.2: The T-s diagram for mixed-flow turbofan engine. The analysis of this engine requires the definition of ...

We now consider a turbofan engine cycle with separate exhaust streams in which afterburning may operate in the core stream and duct burning may operate in the fan stream. When both the afterburner and ...