The engine being tested in the video, is a General Electric J79, an axial-flow turbojet engine, designed in the ’50s and used by several types of fightes and bombers across the world.

It's all thanks to the plane's General Electric J79 turbojet engine. As one of the first jet engines designed for sustained supersonic flight, the J79 was a marvel of its time. It was compact ...

The XF-104 prototype was born from these principles, powered by a General Electric J79 afterburning turbojet producing 15,600 ...