Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/J58 Afterburner

J58 Afterburner

Original - A Pratt & Whitney J58 (the jet engine that powered the SR-71 Blackbird) in the test stand at Edwards AFB, in Full Afterburner. Note how the whole aft section is glowing with the heat. Note also the shock diamonds.

Reason

It's a nice photo that links to a few pages describing various aspects of Ram Jet technology

Articles this image appears in

'Afterburner', 'Pratt & Whitney J58', and 'Shock diamond'

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator Zonedar (talk) 15:44, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted

• Expired. Julia\^talk 19:51, 24 June 2012 (UTC)