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Snecma Olympus 593 Turboject Engine

Rolls-Royce, also, Snecma Olympus 593 Turboject Engine. . , British inventor Frank Whittle pioneered the design of jet engines before World War II (1939-1945). The famed English company Rolls-Royce built upon his work and created a series of successful engines. The first aircraft to use the Rolls-Royce Olympus turbojet engine was the Avro Vulcan, the United Kingdom's long-range strategic bomber, in 1956., Concord used upgraded Olympus 593 engines, which were equipped with afterburners. Most commonly found on military fighter jets, the afterburners injected raw fuel into the jet exhaust and gave the engines more power. They enabled Concorde to accelerate to supersonic speeds. With the afterburners engaged, Concorde's engine had a maximum thrust of 38,050 pounds (169.3 kN) and consumed 6,770 gallons (25,627 liters) of fuel per hour. Once it achieved cruise altitude Concorde maintained a speed of two times the speed of sound, or 13,50 miles per hour (2,170 kph), without using the fuel-thirsty afterburners., All jet engines operate in relatively the same way: they take in air, compress it and eject it out the back to propel the airplane forward. Jet engines can only take in air that is traveling below the speed of sound. Air entering the jet engines at Concorde's top speed, twice the speed of sound, would render the engines useless. A series of deflector ramps and doors on Concorde created a shock wave that slowed the incoming air before it reached the engine., Just one of Concorde's Olympus engines generated the horsepower equivalent to 10,000 small automobiles.,

Length: 13 feet 3 inches (4 m) , Diameter: 4 feet (1.2 m) , Dry weight: 7,000 pounds (3,175 kg) , Maximum thrust: 38,050 pounds (169.3 kN)

, [Captions:] , From 1956 to 1984, the Avro Vulcan served as the backbone of the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent force during the Cold War. A radical design at the time, the aircraft was powered by early versions of the Olympus engine., Concorde required afterburners to accelerate to takeoff speed and push it into supersonic flight at high altitudes.