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Author |
: Raymond Friedman |
Publisher |
: Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 127 |
Release |
: 2010-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781450065917 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1450065910 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Jet Propulsion, Including Rockets by : Raymond Friedman
Both Jet-engine propelled aircraft and long-range rockets were first successfully flown during World War II. This led 10 rapid post-war improvements in both, and within two decades we had supersonic airplanes, communication satellites, and trips to the moon. Unmanned probes to Mars and the outer planets followed, as well as the International Space Station. The technology behind these advances is described, along with short biographies of key pioneers. Problems at high Mach numbers are reviewed. Possible future developments are discussed. Mora technical details, including mathematics, are in an appendix.
Author |
: Wolfgang Brix |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2023-02-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783757831141 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3757831144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jet - The story of jet propulsion by : Wolfgang Brix
Flying is today part of our life. We can sit in comfortable seats and reach nearly every destination around the world. Few passengers know that the engines one can see through the cabin window have been invented and built and tested just 85 years ago. At the beginning there were inventors, small engines and small aircraft, which have grown in the course of decades into big aircraft, powerful engines and mighty companies.The story of this development is highly fascinating and entertaining. Who wants to know more finds in this book a lot of informations and technical details. Never before a book with this range of inventors, jet engines, jet aircraft and jet companies has been published.
Author |
: S. Mike Pavelec |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2007-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781573567190 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1573567191 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Jet Race and the Second World War by : S. Mike Pavelec
In the 1930s, as nations braced for war, the German military build up caught Britain and the United States off-guard, particularly in aviation technology. The unending quest for speed resulted in the need for radical alternatives to piston engines. In Germany, Dr. Hans von Ohain was the first to complete a flight-worthy turbojet engine for aircraft. It was installed in a Heinkel-designed aircraft, and the Germans began the jet age on August 27, 1939. The Germans led the jet race throughout the war and were the first to produce jet aircraft for combat operations. In England, the doggedly determined Frank Whittle also developed a turbojet engine, but without the support enjoyed by his German counterpart. The British came second in the jet race when Whittle's engine powered the Gloster Pioneer on May 15, 1941. The Whittle-Gloster relationship continued and produced the only Allied combat jet aircraft during the war, the Meteor, which was relegated to Home Defense in Britain. In America, General Electric copied the Whittle designs, and Bell Aircraft contracted to build the first American jet plane. On October 1, 1942, a lackluster performance from the Bell Airacomet, ushered in the American jet age. The Yanks forged ahead, and had numerous engine and airframe programs in development by the end of the war. But, the Germans did it right and did it first, while the Allies lagged throughout the war, only rising to technological prominence on the ashes of the German defeat. Pavelec's analysis of the jet race uncovers all the excitement in the high-stakes race to develop effective jet engines for warfare and transport.
Author |
: N. A. Cumpsty |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2003-08-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521541441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521541442 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jet Propulsion by : N. A. Cumpsty
This is the second edition of Cumpsty's excellent self-contained introduction to the aerodynamic and thermodynamic design of modern civil and military jet engines. Through two engine design projects, first for a new large passenger aircraft, and second for a new fighter aircraft, the text introduces, illustrates and explains the important facets of modern engine design. Individual sections cover aircraft requirements and aerodynamics, principles of gas turbines and jet engines, elementary compressible fluid mechanics, bypass ratio selection, scaling and dimensional analysis, turbine and compressor design and characteristics, design optimization, and off-design performance. The book emphasises principles and ideas, with simplification and approximation used where this helps understanding. This edition has been thoroughly updated and revised, and includes a new appendix on noise control and an expanded treatment of combustion emissions. Suitable for student courses in aircraft propulsion, but also an invaluable reference for engineers in the engine and airframe industry.
Author |
: Hermione Giffard |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2016-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226388625 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022638862X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making Jet Engines in World War II by : Hermione Giffard
Our stories of industrial innovation tend to focus on individual initiative and breakthroughs. With Making Jet Enginesin World War II, Hermione Giffard uses the case of the development of jet engines to offer a different way of understanding technological innovation, revealing the complicated mix of factors that go into any decision to pursue an innovative, and therefore risky technology. Giffard compares the approaches of Britain, Germany, and the United States. Each approached jet engines in different ways because of its own war aims and industrial expertise. Germany, which produced more jet engines than the others, did so largely as replacements for more expensive piston engines. Britain, on the other hand, produced relatively few engines—but, by shifting emphasis to design rather than production, found itself at war's end holding an unrivaled range of designs. The US emphasis on development, meanwhile, built an institutional basis for postwar production. Taken together, Giffard's work makes a powerful case for a more nuanced understanding of technological innovation, one that takes into account the influence of the many organizational factors that play a part in the journey from idea to finished product.
Author |
: Bill Gunston |
Publisher |
: Patrick Stephens Limited |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0750944773 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780750944779 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Development of Jet and Turbine Aero Engines by : Bill Gunston
Using language understandable to those without an engineering background and avoiding complex mathematical formulae, Bill Gunston explains the differences between gas-turbine, jet, rocket, ramjet and helicopter turbo shaft aero engines and traces their histories from the early days through to today’s complex and powerful units as used in the latest wide-bodied airliners and high performance military jets.
Author |
: Antony Kay |
Publisher |
: Crowood Press (UK) |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2002-07-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105025976403 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis German Jet Engine and Gas Turbine Development, 1930-45 by : Antony Kay
The German war machine resulted in many innovations in jet engine and gas turbine development. The most noteworthy was the Me262, the world's first operational jet fighting aircraft.
Author |
: Duncan Campbell-Smith |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 618 |
Release |
: 2020-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781788544689 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1788544684 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jet Man by : Duncan Campbell-Smith
The story of Frank Whittle – RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero. 'Wonderful' David Edgerton, TLS 'A fascinating account' Aeroplane Monthly 'Casts new light on the intense, heroic character of Frank Whittle' Leo McKinstry '[A] thorough dissection of the evolution of the jet engine... I recommend this mighty tome unreservedly' Journal of Aeronautical History 'A long overdue corrective of an extraordinary man' James Hamilton-Paterson 'A fine, deeply researched book' Military History Monthly In 1938, a thirty-one-year-old RAF pilot and engineer named Frank Whittle – given special leave to pursue his own startlingly original concept of flight – presented the Air Ministry with a written proposal for a revolutionary jet-powered fighter aircraft. A ready response might have changed the course of history, but Whittle got no reply. In this gripping and insightful biography, Duncan Campbell-Smith charts Whittle's success at building a pre-war jet engine against all the odds – and tracks his desperate struggle to have it launched into active service against Hitler's Luftwaffe. It arrived too late – but nonetheless transformed the future of aviation.
Author |
: Nathalia Holt |
Publisher |
: Little, Brown |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2016-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316338912 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316338915 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rise of the Rocket Girls by : Nathalia Holt
The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible. For the first time, Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the stories of these women -- known as "human computers" -- who broke the boundaries of both gender and science. Based on extensive research and interviews with all the living members of the team, Rise of the Rocket Girls offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science: both where we've been, and the far reaches of space to which we're heading. "If Hidden Figures has you itching to learn more about the women who worked in the space program, pick up Nathalia Holt's lively, immensely readable history, Rise of the Rocket Girls." -- Entertainment Weekly
Author |
: Fraser MacDonald |
Publisher |
: PublicAffairs |
Total Pages |
: 442 |
Release |
: 2019-06-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610398695 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610398696 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Escape from Earth by : Fraser MacDonald
The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick. Los Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets are just toys, the stuff of cranks and pulp magazines. Nevertheless, an earnest engineering student named Frank Malina sets out to prove the doubters wrong. With the help of his friend Jack Parsons, a grandiose and occult-obsessed explosives enthusiast, Malina embarks on a journey that takes him from junk yards and desert lots to the heights of the military-industrial complex. Malina designs the first American rocket to reach space and establishes the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But trouble soon finds him: the FBI suspects Malina of being a communist. And when some classified documents go missing, will his comrades prove as dependable as his engineering? Drawing on an astonishing array of untapped sources, including FBI documents and private archives, Escape From Earth tells the inspiring true story of Malina's achievements--and the political fear that's kept them hidden. At its heart, this is an Icarus tale: a real life fable about the miracle of human ingenuity and the frailty of dreams.