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 ...

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

Powered by four afterburner-equipped Olympus 593 Mk610 ... This was absolutely unheard of for a passenger aircraft. One Concorde contemporary model, the Vickers VC10 (speedy enough to achieve ...

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.