Aircraft Engine Historical Society, Inc.
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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Aircraft Power Plants - Part I, 1939-08-15
Item — Box 026, Folder: 027
Identifier: 20220411
Abstract
Training material used to train aircraft mechanics in the United States Army Air Corps.
Dates:
Publication: 1939-08-15
Engine Conditioning for Reciprocating Engines (Air Force Manual 52-9), 1953-03
Item — Book 090, Book: 000
Identifier: 20191013
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Air Force ManualDocument Number: AF Manual 52-9From the Foreword:
1. PURPOSE. This Manual provides Air Force personnel with a better understanding of the nature and possibilities of engine conditioning for reciprocating engines.2. APPLICABILITY. The material included is for use by flight crews and operations personnel, as well as maintenance personnel and engine conditioning crews. 3. CONTENT. This Manual explains and defines...
Dates:
Publication: 1953-03
Merlin II, III and V Aero-engines (Air Publication 1590B to S, Vol II, Part 3: Instructions for Overhaul), 1943, 1943-11
Item — Box 096, Folder: 011
Identifier: 20200103
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Technical Manual with detailed line drawings.Scope: available portions of AP 1590B cover Rolls-Royce Merlin model differences and engine timingContents include portions of AP 1590B:
- Introduction to Volume II, Part 3 (Instructions for Overhaul)
- Table of Main Differences in Design of Merlin Engines
- Section 2 (Repair and Reconditioning) - Chapter 3 (Piston, Connecting Rods and Crankshaft
- Section 2 (Repair and Reconditioning) - Chapter 9...
Dates:
Publication: 1943; Modified: 1943-11
Superchargers for Aviation, 1942
Item — Book 088, Book: 000
Identifier: 20180017
Abstract
An Illuminating, Authoritative Text by the Inventor of the Supercharger (Dr. Sanford A. Moss, Ph.D.)(back cover). Foreword: Supercharging has such an important place with the modern internal combustion engine that the publication of the present book seems most timely. The material originally appeared in the weekly numbers of the aviation publication Aeronautics, issued under the auspices of the present publishers in 1941, but the author has considerably revised and extended this matter for...
Dates:
Publication: 1942
The Airplane and Its Engine (Fourth Edition, Second Impression), 1940
Item — Book 086, Book: 000
Identifier: 20180015
Abstract
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION The wide use of the first three editions of the book, both by the general public and by schools and colleges, has indicated to the authors that their hope of meeting a definite need in aeronautical literature has been fulfilled. Like its predecessors, this edition is intended primarily for the reader who desires a sound knowledge of the basic principles and a broad view of the present development of the airplane and its power plant, without giving to the...
Dates:
Publication: 1940