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==== Afterburner ====
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An afterburner or "reheat jetpipe" is a combustion chamber added to reheat the turbine exhaust gases. The fuel consumption is very high, typically four times that of the main engine. Afterburners are used almost exclusively on [[supersonic aircraft]], most being military aircraft. Two supersonic airliners, Concorde and the [[Tu-144]], also used afterburners as does [[Scaled Composites White Knight]], a carrier aircraft for the experimental [[Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne|SpaceShipOne]] [[suborbital]] spacecraft, and [[Boom XB-1]], an experimental supersonic aircraft.

Reheat was flight-trialled in 1944 on the [[Power Jets W.2|W.2/700]] engines in a [[Gloster Meteor|Gloster Meteor I]].<ref>{{cite book |title=World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines |edition=5th |author= [[Bill Gunston]] |publisher=Sutton Publishing |year= 2006 |page=160}}</ref>