Unforgiven
Spaceman
I was wondering lately how afterburners would work in space? I mean they can't possibly work like the real thing here on Earth. Come on LOAF, I know you have the answer to this one
For the record, this is how real afterburners work:
A normal Jet engine sucks air in through the front, uses it to burn fuel, and then blows the resulting gasses out the back at extreme high speed.
At some point this process became so efficient that not all the air could be burned given the speed they could pump and burn fuel in the engine. So they put extra fuel lines at the back of the engine nozzle, spray fuel in the remaining airstream and burn it there.
Without air in space this would be kind of hard. So how do WC afterburners work?
For the record, this is how real afterburners work:
A normal Jet engine sucks air in through the front, uses it to burn fuel, and then blows the resulting gasses out the back at extreme high speed.
At some point this process became so efficient that not all the air could be burned given the speed they could pump and burn fuel in the engine. So they put extra fuel lines at the back of the engine nozzle, spray fuel in the remaining airstream and burn it there.
Without air in space this would be kind of hard. So how do WC afterburners work?