Turbo Jetengine AfterBurners

[Dooz]

i just thought of Real life Jets Some Have afterburners i just thought to make things more Realistic Just a idea Consumes Alot of fuel when used and gives thrust Very high thrust

just a Idea

[ouion]

There is a mod on this its thr romfarer lazor mod. + 1 I would like to see that and the Jet engine in the current version is not fast enough.

[Rarity]

From what I've read, the jet engines as they are actually have greater thrust for their fuel consumption and weight compared to real life counterparts. For example, the Pratt & Whitney F119 engine (the one used on the F-22 Raptor) only has a thrust of 160Kn.

Edited September 2, 2013 by Rarity

[kahlzun]

"better fuel consumption.... F22 raptor"

But what kind of ISP does it have?

[thescientist]

Jet engines are already quite overpowered, even if you're using FAR as me. That mod decrease the max thurs to a more realisic one (140 Kn) and reduce the operative speed range of the engines, but I've never used the lazor postburners because they were still powerful enuoght. I think that afterburners are a good Idea for future version of KSP, but presently they aren't as useful as you may think. Remember that the game physics let you to go at Mach 5 (hypersonic speed!) without any extra thurs while in real life it's quite hard to go over Mach 1.5 even with postburners due to the law of the areodynamics and of physic, because higher speed cause higher heating, bigger problem for engines (The turbofan engine CAN'T WORK with an intake that overcome the sound speed), bigger structural trouble...

[thereaverofdarkness]

An afterburner would increase the mass of the craft while increasing thrust without increasing fuel consumption. It would potentially make the craft more efficient, but it depends on the mass of the afterburner versus the amoount of extra thrust it is generating.