FUCK YEAH JET ENGINE.

14 years ago

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21 Responses:

1. teferi says:

   14 years ago at 2:53 pm

   It is impossible to look at this image and not make "THOOM THOOM THOOM" noises.

   • strspn says:

     14 years ago at 9:21 pm

     Agreed.

2. edlang says:

   14 years ago at 3:43 pm

   Anyone else notice the two pulses (where thrust went to maximum perhaps)? This engine would make quite a handy morse code device...

   • lionsphil says:

     14 years ago at 4:33 pm

     Ayup, although it made me think more of the weird energy rings from when the Death Star's first stages are firing. (Not that, er, they look much like that. I think the purely cylindrical appearance of the dangerous glowing in this shot, rather than usual jet tail, has set my brain firmly to "death ray".)

   • popekosh says:

     14 years ago at 5:43 pm

     Those look like shock diamonds:
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_diamond

     • zonereyrie says:

       14 years ago at 10:19 am

       Yep, shock diamonds.

     • rapier1 says:

       14 years ago at 11:27 am

       I always liked the name mach rings more.

3. mackys says:

   14 years ago at 4:07 pm

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F-35_engine.jpg

   Some kind of techno-Eldrich death machine.

4. ladyriv says:

   14 years ago at 4:10 pm

   that's freaking AWESOME.

   • tjic says:

     14 years ago at 5:03 pm

     The pretty flower-like petals around the exhaust stage are for thrust vectoring.

     • zonereyrie says:

       14 years ago at 10:18 am

       Actually, no. Pretty much all jet engines for supersonic aircraft have those. They're not for vectoring, they allow the area of the nozzle to be adjusted to optimize the thrust for given throttle levels and atmospheric pressure at different speeds and altitudes.

       While a version of the F135 does vector (for the F-35B), it is not the petals but a 'lobster tail' segment upstream of the petals that does the vectoring.

       Edit: Oh, and to clarify, yes, there are some engines, notably Russian, which do use the nozzle petals to do some thrust vectoring, but none in the West at this time. The F-22 has vectoring, but uses a '2-D' nozzle with a square aperture, not the round petal design.

5. joel says:

   14 years ago at 6:23 pm

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbtvFIEBJdA

   • hattifattener says:

     14 years ago at 6:16 pm

     Damn, you beat me to it. Mach diamonds o' plenty!

6. stormgren says:

   14 years ago at 10:09 pm

   "FUCK YEAH JET ENGINE"

   Great band name, there.

7. takeapeek says:

   14 years ago at 10:58 pm

   Awesome :-)

8. malachus says:

   14 years ago at 11:34 pm

   Sweet. My (old) boss worked on the team that tested the F119 engine that this is based on.

9. autopope says:

   14 years ago at 2:12 am

   I love the little fire extinguisher in the bottom left corner of the picture!

   • vordark says:

     14 years ago at 7:32 am

     "The goggles do nothing!"

10. jackolantern says:

    14 years ago at 2:35 pm

    I'll take two, with walnut grips.

11. mc_kingfish says:

    14 years ago at 3:22 pm

    TEAM AMERICA!

12. spc78 says:

    14 years ago at 4:18 pm

    I'm pretty sure that's actually a Pratt & Whitney promotional image. I'm a contractor for them, and see that image all the time (on their website, on posters in the hall, etc.)