Design
A jet engine draws air in at the front and compresses it. The air then combines with fuel and the engine burns the resulting mixture. The combustion greatly increases the volume of the gases which are then exhausted out of the rear of the engine. The Olympus engine took this gas jet and passed it through straightening vanes - to remove swirl. This gas jet then entered the afterburning jet pipe where a ring of fuel injectors sprayed fuel onto the hot exhaust gases. The resulting combustion greatly improved thrust, although it also led to high fuel consumption. The afterburner was thus only used at takeoff and from just below Mach 1 up to Mach 1.7; the engine supercruised above that speed.
The afterburning section was longer than the engine itself (as was the case with all early turbojets) but the thrust of the Olympus 302 rose to 30,610 lbf (136 kN).
Read more about this topic: Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593
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