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Old Oct 22, 2016, 7:36 am
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You can see the flames from engines with afterburners lit.
- Concorde takeoff, for example. Normally it is military AC with ABs, however.
- multiple F-22 takeoffs.

Afterburners are extremely inefficient with fuel.
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