The engines of Pratt & Whitney a technical history /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Reston, Va. :
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
c2010.
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| Series: | Library of flight.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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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.