Turbojet device

Usage examples of afterburner.

On a terse command from their carrier, they went to afterburner and rocketed southwest toward the Backfires.

The Russian bombers were on afterburner and were nearly as fast as the fighters.

To the bare-bones fuel requirements he added five minutes on afterburner in case of air-to-air combat and ten minutes to orbit Bitburg for landing.

Twenty thousand feet below them, shielded from ground radar by a pair of mountains, twelve Tomcats of the Black Aces went to afterburner, their radars shut off as the twin-engined fighters rocketed skyward.

The Soviet bombers climbed steeply on afterburner, activating their own look-down radars to find targets for their missiles.

The fighters went to afterburner and swept into punishing high-g turns while heads swiveled and eyes squinted at familiar shapes while trying to decide if the paint scheme was friendly or not.

Caution faded to nothing as he closed on afterburner and ignored his low-fuel state light.

The supersonic Russian bombers went to afterburner and activated their radars in a contest with time, distance, and American interceptors.

Coyote killed the afterburner, then snapped the Tomcat into a wingover which sent the heavy aircraft plunging toward the cloud deck in an inverted dive.

Tombstone rammed the throttles forward to full afterburner and clawed for altitude once more.

The nimble, twin-tailed single-seater vaulted skyward under his touch, afterburner flaring.

Sea and sky chased one another across the curve of his canopy, and then he cut in his afterburner and the kick slammed his seat into his back with pile driver force.

Sustained maneuvers on full afterburner drank fuel at an impossible rate.

At first Batman thought the Fantan was cutting in its afterburner, but then he realized that fuel was spilling into the tailpipe and igniting.

He punched up the new navigation coordinates, and checked his afterburner fuel reserve.