The engines of Pratt & Whitney : a technical history /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Connors, Jack (Engineer)
Corporate Author: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Other Authors: Allen, Ned
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ©2010.
Series:Library of flight.
Subjects:
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group > History.
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group
Airplanes > Motors > History.
Aircraft gas-turbines > History.
Jet engines > History.
Avions > Moteurs > Histoire.
Moteurs à réaction > Histoire.
Aircraft gas-turbines
Airplanes > Motors
Jet engines
Vliegtuigmotoren.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pre-flight briefing
  • The early years
  • The later piston engine years
  • The piston engine experience
  • Transition to gas turbines
  • WWII ends and turbojet development begins
  • Birth of the tow-spool turbojet
  • Four more turbojets
  • Transition to turbofans
  • Higher and faster
  • Going commercial
  • Challenges and new turbofans
  • High-bypass fans
  • The modern era
  • Looking back 80 years
  • Appendix : Pratt & Whitney medallion.

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