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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
With the jet stuck with afterburners on....

"Afterburners" implies multi-engine,the F-16 is a single engine aircraft.

OK,OK,so I'm a nitpicker but that's my job!

27 posted on 11/28/2007 5:29:28 PM PST by oldsalt (There's no such thing as a free lunch.)
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To: oldsalt
OK,OK,so I'm a nitpicker but that's my job!

A multi-stage afterburner?

44 posted on 11/28/2007 6:50:54 PM PST by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people. Socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: oldsalt
re: Afterburner(s)

Aren’t there usually about five levels of afterburner (”reheat” to the Brits), since he probably had all five injector rings going, one could make a linguistic case that all five levels of the afterburnerS were operating.

49 posted on 11/28/2007 8:12:13 PM PST by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in Vietnam meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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