The engines of Pratt & Whitney : a technical history / / Jack Connors ; Ned Allen, editor-in-chief.
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| Superior document: | Library of flight |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of flight.
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 527 p. :; ill. |
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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.