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 ...

The afterburner has been used in a few commercial jets as well. Most famously, of course, Concorde used afterburners for ...

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

with the production Tu-144S requiring an afterburner on its Kuznetsov NK-144A engines just like the Concorde, before the revised Tu-144D removing the need for afterburners with the Koliesov RD36 ...

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 ...