27785, RE: Homemade jet engine using a turbocharger.
Posted by noboost, Dec-31-69 06:00 PM
Originally posted by Keith2172
No, it's F&F nonsense
On a car, its nonsense.
On a radial jet, which I assume is what Ez was referring to, it is an afterburner.
The reason it's nonsense on a car is because the ingested oxygen has already been used pretty completely in the engine.
A jet exhaust has a lot of oxygen left over, so burning it by dumping fuel into the exhaust produces extra thrust without spinning the turbine any faster.
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