flame damper

Flame dampers were also fitted in the form of "fish tail" exhaust pipes.

Flame dampers prevented exhaust glow on night operations, but they had an effect on performance.

The D-7 and D-8 were both were fitted with flame dampers, and could conduct night operations.

The aircraft were equipped with exhaust flame dampers, a pair of 12.7 mm machine guns and underwing racks for four 50 kg bombs.

The aircraft were equipped with flame dampers and bomb racks for four 50 kg bombs, but reportedly these planes were not used operationally.

Mk I Night-fighter conversion of F. Mk I. Flame damper exhausts, no radar.

It fired a massive projectile (more than twice the weight of the NR-23's 23 mm shell), requiring a muzzle brake with an integrated flame damper to prevent airframe damage from its firing.

The type was also fitted with a gun camera in a compartment above the machine guns in the nose and was fitted with exhaust flame dampers to reduce the glare from the Merlin XXs.

The bomber prototype led to the B Mk IV, of which 273 were built: apart from the 10 Series 1s, all of the rest were built as Series 2s with extended nacelles, revised exhaust manifolds, with integrated flame dampers, and larger tailplanes.

Flame dampers prevented the exhaust glow on night operations but they had an effect on performance.Multiple ejector and open ended exhaust stubs configuration ended the problem and were used in the PR.VIII, B.IX and B.XVI variants.