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Author Connors, Jack (Engineer)

Title The engines of Pratt & Whitney : a technical history / Jack Connors ; Ned Allen, editor-in-chief
Published Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 527 pages) : illustrations
Series Library of flight
Library of flight.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group -- History
SUBJECT Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group fast
Subject Airplanes -- Motors -- History
Aircraft gas-turbines -- History
Jet engines -- History
Aircraft gas-turbines
Airplanes -- Motors
Jet engines
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Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Allen, Ned.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
LC no. 2009036431
ISBN 9781613440445
1613440448
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