Afterburner for Your Retirement As great as an IRA is for retirement savings, it’s the slow-spooling stovepipe turbojet to the afterburner of a more powerful retirement savings vehicle: the 401 (k).

This is a tube-chassis dragster with the body of a stretched W126 S-Class on top and a 1953 Westinghouse J34 turbojet engine with a diesel-fueled afterburner sticking out the back.

Object Details Manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Physical Description Type: Turbojet, Afterburner, Water Injection Thrust: 76,500 N (17,200 lb) dry, 117,872 N (26,500 lb) with afterburning Compressor: 8 ...

For example, while the T-38 Talon's engines produce 2,050 pounds of dry thrust (no afterburner), once the afterburners kick in, it jumps to 2,900 pounds, an increase of 850 pounds of thrust.

This hypnotic whirl of metal is the afterburner of a General Electric J79 axial-flow turbojet engine—the same engine used on F-4 Phantom jets, made by McDonnell Aircraft during the Vietnam War.

With a blast of newspaper ads last week, Westinghouse Electric Corp. boasted it had “the world’s most powerful jet engine qualified for production.” The new model of its J40 turbojet, said ...

This blisteringly high speed was to be achieved by six turbojet engines that produced a massive 28,000 pounds of thrust each, with an afterburner.

In principle, the afterburner is as simple as ABC. The tailpipe of an ordinary turbojet engine is lengthened and inside its throat is placed a grid of hollow, perforated cross-pieces.