Airplanes -- Motors -- Design and construction
Subject
Subject Source: World Cat Fast Authority File
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Gas Turbines and Jet Propulsion for Aircraft (Fourth Edition), 1946
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 085, Book: Catalog Number: TBD
Identifier: 20180014
Abstract
AUTHOR'S NOTE In the comparatively short space of five years, the turbine power unit has established itself on military types, and its employment is now being extended to civil aircraft. Already the modern gas turbine is available in units of far greater power than are obtainable with orthodox reciprocating engines. After the successful early stage of development of turbine-jet units, the industry is now engaged on a second phase comprising turbines driving air-screws, which give improved...
Dates:
Publication: 1946
"Intermittent Oil Feed Investigations" (Bulletin of the Experimental Department, Airplane Engineering Division, U.S.A, Vol. II, No. 3) [Photocopy], 1918-12
Item — Box MC-019-001, Folder: 001.A.007
Identifier: 20140707
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Technical Research Report
Authority: Government Military (authoritative reference)
Document Number: Bulletin of the Experimental Department, Airplane Engineering Division, U.S.A. [United States Army], Vol. II, No. 3 (dated December 1918). This section on pages 122 through 142.Scope: By the Experimental Department. Intended for limited, controlled distribution (see General note on publication data).Contents: article includes "Relations between Quantity,...
Dates:
Publication: 1918-12
Jet: The Story of a Pioneer, 1954
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 080, Book: Catalog Number: TBD
Identifier: 20180008
Topics
Document Type: Historical Monograph (autobiography)Scope (from the Preface": "This book is not an autobiography. It is primarily the history I of my association with the development of the turbo-jet engine in Great Britain. I have included a very brief account of my life prior to my practical work on the turbo-jet engine, in order that the reader may have some idea of the nature of the soil in which the seed of an idea took root and flourished. I have been unable to resist the...
Dates:
Publication: 1954
Menasco Aircraft Engines (Technical Sales Brochure), 1935-04
Item — Box 096, Folder: 007
Identifier: 20212028
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Technical Sales Brochure
Authority: Manufacturer (authoritative reference)
Contents consist of detailed information regarding 5 Menasco in-line, air-cooled, inverted aircraft engines: B4 (95 h.p.), C4 (125 h.p.), B6 (160 h.p.), C4S (150 h.p.), and the B6S (200 h.p.). Each engine is covered in 4 color-coded pages which include descriptions of each engine, technical specifications, black and white photographs and example installation drawings.
Dates:
Publication: 1935-04