Moteurs à réaction : beaux livres - histoire et technique

Jet Engines - Fundamentals of Theory, Design and Operation

Pour ceux qui souhaitent élargir leurs connaissances de la technologie des moteurs à réaction et des sujets associés. Il couvre les conceptions de turboréacteurs, turbopropulseurs et turboréacteurs à double flux et s'applique à une utilisation civile et militaire.

En commençant par un aperçu des principaux types de conception et des fondamentaux, il aborde ensuite des sujets tels que les prises d'air, les compresseurs et les systèmes d'échappement. L'augmentation de la poussée et les systèmes de moteur sont suivis de chapitres sur les considérations environnementales et l'intégration à la cellule, concluant l'ouvrage.

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The Jet Engine (5th Edition)

The Jet Engine provides a complete, accessible description of the working and underlying principles of the gas turbine.

Features:
- Accessible, non-technical approach explaining the workings of jet engines, for readers of all levels
- Full colour diagrams, cutaways and photographs throughout
- Written by RR specialists in all the respective fields
- Hugely popular and well-reviewed book, originally published in 2005 under Rolls Royce's own imprint.

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Turbojet History and Development 1930-1960 (Volume 1) - Great Britain and Germany

This first of two volumes looks at the pioneering work of British and German designers and manufacturers, starting with the very first jet engines designed by Frank Whittle before World War Two. Technical details are set in their matrix of events, personalities, politics and world history.
The text is supported with almost 300 black & white photographs and drawings and the book is complete with appendices, including engine data tables.

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Turbojet History and Development 1930-1960 (Volume 2)

In the second and final volume of this complete history of the early years of the jet engine, Tony Kay covers all the countries to embark on jet engine development after the leads established by Great Britain and Germany before World War Two.

Most important amongst these countries, in terms of turbojet development, are the United States, France and the USSR, but the book also covers the engines produced by Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Hungary, Japan and Italy.

Superby illustrated with hundreds of photographs of engines - turbojet, turboprop, turboshaft and turbofan - and the aircraft that they powered.

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Making Jet Engines in World War II - Britain, Germany, and the United States

Our stories of industrial innovation tend to focus on individual initiative and lone breakthroughs. With "Making Jet Engines", Hermione Giffard uses the case of the development of jet engines during World War II 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 Germany, Britain and the United States, showing that each approached jet engines in different ways because of its own particular war aims and industrial expertise.

Germany (Junkers, Bramo, BMW, Daimler-Benz), which produced more jet engines than the others, did so largely as replacements for more expensive piston engines.
Britain (Rolls-Royce, De Havilland, Armstrong-Siddeley, Bristol, Napier), 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 (General Electric) emphasis on development, meanwhile, built an institutional basis for postwar production.

Taken together, Giffard's accounts make 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.

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Pegasus - The Heart of the Harrier Pegasus (Hardback)

The conception of the Pegasus engine in 1957 upset all the conventions of aircraft design. It was previously usual for aircraft designers to seek a suitable engine, but this was an engine that sought an aircraft. The aircraft that resulted was the famous Harrier that is still in front-line service with air forces around the world including the RAF and US Marine Corps.

This book takes an in-depth look at the engine's original design concept, initial production and flight testing. It then goes on to explain how the developments and improvements have been made over the ensuing years and includes experiences of operational combat flying, both from land and sea.
The book is written in a non technical style that makes comfortable reading for all enthusiasts and historians and is copiously illustrated with many previously unseen photographs and diagrams.

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