A Pictorial A To Z Of Vintage And Classic Model Airplane Engines

Author : Lionel S. Marks
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330364062
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Airplane Engine written by Lionel S. Marks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Airplane Engine This volume attempts two things: to formulate existing knowledge of the functioning of the airplane engine and its auxiliaries; and to present and discuss the essential constructive details of those engines whose excellence has resulted in their survival. The material here collected is largely new; very little of it could have been written before the war and only a small fraction was available for publication before 1919. It is based mainly on the researches and engine developments originating during the war and resulting from the wars urgencies. The researches have been carried out almost exclusively under governmental auspices; in the United States at the Bureau of Standards and at the Air Service experimental plant at McCook Field; in Great Britain at the Royal Aircraft Factory and the National Physical Laboratory; in France and Germany at equivalent institutions. Many of the results of these investigations were published confidentially during the war in Reports of the Bureau of Standards; in Bulletins and Technical Orders of the Airplane Engineering Division of the U.S. Army; in Reports of the (British) Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; in Bulletins de la Section Technique de l'Aronautique Militaire; and in Technische Berichte. This material has now become available and much of it has been published in the Reports of the (U.S.) National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and in the technical press. Similarly, the constructive details of most of the existing airplane engines are now available, chiefly from descriptions of captured machines. The German and Austrian engines captured by the British were subjected to a technical analysis which has set a new standard in such matters. Not only were the engines and their auxiliaries tested exhaustively for performance but all the parts were minutely measured, loads and stresses calculated, and the metal analyzed for chemical composition. The French carried out similar analyses of German engines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.