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Pegasus, The Heart of the Harrier : the History and Development of the World's First Operational Vertical Take-off and Landing Jet Engine.

The conception of the Pegasus engine in 1957 upset all the conventions of aircraft design. It was previously usual for aircraft designers to seek a suitable engine, but this was an engine that sought an aircraft. The aircraft thatresulted was the famous Harrier that is still in front-line service wi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dow, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Pen and Sword, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Requirement; Chapter 2 The Ingenious Michel Wibault; Chapter 3 Down at Engines; Chapter 4 The Elegant Solution; Chapter 5 Viable V/STOL; Chapter 6 Bristol Siddeley Means Business; Chapter 7 Three Nations Go VTO; Chapter 8 Pegasus at Oberpfaffenhofen; Chapter 9 Patents Matter; Chapter 10 Troubled Times; Chapter 11 Into Service; Chapter 12 Sell it to the Marines; Chapter 13 In Control; Chapter 14 'I done flown it'; Chapter 15 A Second Lease of Life. 
505 8 |a Chapter 16 Flight TestChapter 17 Pegasus at War; Chapter 18 Achievement and Perspectives; Appendices; A Pegasus Engines Built; B Surviving Early Pegasus Engines; C Data on Permutations in Document PS17; D Basic Data of Service Engines; E Pegasus Chief Engineers; F Pegasus Engines in Sea Harriers and Harriers, Position at 24 May 1982; G BS100 Development Evolution; Bibliography; Index. 
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